Definitions for stupendous
stuˈpɛn dəs, styu-stu·pen·dous

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. colossal, prodigious, stupendous(adj)

   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"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. stupendous(Adjective)

   Astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.

   One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.

2. stupendous(Adjective)

   Of stunning volume, degree, or excellence; marvelous.

   The renovators created a stupendous new look for our house.

Origin: First attested from 1547, from Late Latin stupendus, from Latin stupere. See also stupid.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Stupendous(adj)

   astonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile

Origin: [L. stupendus astonishing, p. future pass. of stupere to be astonished at. Cf. Stupid.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Stupendous

   stū-pen′dus, adj. wonderful, amazing, astonishing for its magnitude, force, enormity.—adv. Stūpen′dously.—n. Stūpen′dousness. [L. stupendus.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of stupendous in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of stupendous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of stupendous in a Sentence

1. Donna Linderman:

   The outcome levels have been stupendous.

2. Erich Gutkind:

   The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

3. Anuj Somany:

   The same acquaintances who ignore or give even trouble to a person at the time of his struggle are often the first to surround and sound a bugle for him on his stupendous success. This is the level of double standard of the people.

4. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:

   I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

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