SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
stupendous
adjective
Astonishingly great in size or degree.
Local English device voice, when available. This is not a recorded dictionary pronunciation.
Astonishingly great
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Usage distinction
Return to topStupendous combines very great size or degree with an impression of wonder. Remarkable is less emphatic and need not refer to scale.
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See stupendous in use
The mural required a stupendous amount of patient work.
The manuscript itself contained a stupendous range of imagined landscapes, from floating orchards to towns built around vast stone instruments.
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