| 单词 | amazing |
| 释义 | amazing (once / 360 pages) adj Use the adjective amazing to describe something that is so good, it surprises you, like the amazing beauty of the Rocky Mountains or the amazing feats of a truly great athlete. Amazing, like incredible, awesome, and fabulous, is used so often to describe things that are just really good, you sometimes forget that its real meaning is reserved for things that are especially remarkable. The base word in amazing is amaze, which means "to astound or perplex." So amazing should be reserved for things that do just that. WORD FAMILYamazing: amazingest, amazingly+/amaze: amazed, amazement, amazes, amazing/amazed: amazedly/amazement: amazements USAGE EXAMPLESWhen I was in London recently, I raised it with one of the ministers, and they said: 'Yeah, it's amazing. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) “It’s amazing, overwhelming,” Long said afterward, wiping away tears. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The city handed over the rest of McMorran to Nancy Winzer, city recreation director, and she is doing amazing things with it, too. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj inspiring awe or admiration or wonder New York is an amazing city Syn awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing impressive making a strong or vivid impression 2adj surprising greatly she does an amazing amount of work Syn astonishing surprising causing surprise or wonder or amazement |
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