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[syn: colossal, prodigious, stupendous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stupendous \Stu*pen"dous\, a. [L. stupendus astonishing, p.
future pass. of stupere to be astonished at. Cf. Stupid.]
Astonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in
magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile. "A stupendous
sum." --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
All are but parts of one stupendous whole. --Pope.
[1913 Webster] -- Stu*pen"dous*ly, adv. --
Stu*pen"dous*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stupendous
adj 1: so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe;
"colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a
colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous
field of grass"; "stupendous demand" [syn: colossal,
prodigious, stupendous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "stupendous":
Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
Homeric, abysmal, amazing, amplitudinous, astonishing, astounding,
astronomic, astronomical, awesome, beguiling, bewildering,
boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, cracking, elephantine,
enigmatic, enormous, epic, exceptional, extensive, extraordinary,
fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, galactic, giant, giantlike,
gigantic, heroic, huge, immeasurable, immense, incomprehensible,
inconceivable, incredible, indescribable, ineffable, infinite,
jumbo, king-size, large, legendary, mammoth, marvelous, massive,
massy, mighty, miraculous, monster, monstrous, monumental, mortal,
mountainous, mythical, noteworthy, outlandish, outsize, overgrown,
passing strange, phenomenal, portentous, prodigious, profound,
puzzling, rare, remarkable, sensational, sizable, spacious,
spectacular, staggering, strange, striking, stupefying, titanic,
towering, tremendous, unexampled, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique,
unparalleled, unprecedented, unspeakable, vast, voluminous,
weighty, wonderful, wondrous