| 单词 | stupendous |
| 释义 | stupendous (once / 1318 pages) adj Stupendous means amazing or awesome. You just won a million dollars and are donating it to charity? That’s stupendous! While you might think of stupid as a mean word for someone who isn’t smart, it can also mean senseless or stunned. If something stuns you so much that you are amazed, it is stupendous. Think of a stupendous performance or stupendous scenery. When something is big enough to astound, also use this word. The tower rose to a stupendous height. It would take a stupendous effort to improve your D in history to an A! WORD FAMILYstupendous: stupendously USAGE EXAMPLESOr turkey made with the classical technique and stupendous amounts of butter; or the turkey that your mother learned how to make from Betty Crocker. Los Angeles Times(Nov 24, 2016) It’s one of director John Ford’s darker Westerns, and with stupendous performances from Wayne and Stewart, it’s one of Ford’s most fascinating classics. New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) Vaslav Nijinsky is reputed to have been the most stupendous dancer after Terpsichore, the Greek goddess of dance. Los Angeles Times(Nov 20, 2016) adj so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe a stupendous field of grass stupendous demand Syn colossal, prodigious big, large above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent |
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