stupendous

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/stuˈpɛndəs/
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/stuˈpɛndəs/ · /stjuˈpɛndəs/

Definition of stupendous

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.
    “One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.”
    “The entrance to Fonthill—that truly cloud-capt palace, so fantastic and so transitory—was by two stupendous doors, which seemed to defy the strength of giants.”
    “Over the broadest there seemed to spring a cragged and stupendous arch, from which, as from the jaws of hell, gushed the sources of the sudden Phlegethon.”
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adj

  1. Astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.
    “One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.”
    “The entrance to Fonthill—that truly cloud-capt palace, so fantastic and so transitory—was by two stupendous doors, which seemed to defy the strength of giants.”
    “Over the broadest there seemed to spring a cragged and stupendous arch, from which, as from the jaws of hell, gushed the sources of the sudden Phlegethon.”
  2. Of stunning excellence or degree; marvelous.
    “The renovator created a stupendous new look for our house.”

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Etymology

First attested from 1547, from Late Latin stupendus (“stunning, amazing”), from the verb stupeō (“(I) am stunned”). Doublet of stupend (which is obsolete), and related to stupor and stupid.

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