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English Dictionary: stupendous by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): colossal, prodigious, stupendous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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. [bd]A
      stupendous sum.[b8] --Macaulay.
  
               All are but parts of one stupendous whole. --Pope.
      -- {Stu*pen"dous*ly}, adv. -- {Stu*pen"dous*ness}, n.
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