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Definition: Amazing |
AmazingAdjective1. Surprising greatly; "she does an amazing amount of work"; "the dog was capable of astonishing tricks". 2. Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "amazing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: AmazingSynonyms: astonishing (adj), awe-inspiring (adj), awesome (adj), awful (adj), awing (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Amazing |
| English words defined with "amazing": amazingly, astonishing, astonishingly, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing ♦ baffle, bilk ♦ construction, cross ♦ foil, frustrate ♦ miracle ♦ queer ♦ Scotch, spoil, structure, stunner, surprisingly ♦ thwart. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "amazing": IMPROBABILITY ♦ LINCtape, Little Corporal ♦ Marphisa ♦ NSA line eater ♦ PANS, Pretty Amazing New Stuff ♦ Sforza ♦ Weeble. (references) |
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Screenplays | It's amazing how much you miss the sky. (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe) I must say the sex is quite amazing. Only the other day I was just dozing off and I felt this huge (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) It's amazing that brain can generate enough power to keep those legs moving (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) Bo, when your mother had you, it was the most amazing thing (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) The astronomer, or the paleontologist, gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety (Jurassic Park III; writing credit: Peter Buchman) | |
Lyrics | It's amazing (Amazing; performing artist: Aerosmith) I'm so green, it's really amazing (Falling For The First Time; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) 'Cause your love is so amazing (I Turn to You; performing artist: Christina Aguilera) And it's so amazing (I Need You; performing artist: LeAnn Rimes) | |
Clever | Iowa: We Do Amazing Things With Corn (references; author: unknown) It is amazing how many people want to live a long life, and yet so few want to grow old. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Amazing Grace (1974) The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (1972) Amazing Mr. Callaghan (1960) The Amazing Transparent Man (1960) Betty Blowtorch (And Her Amazing True Life Adventures) (2003) | |
Song Titles | Amazing Grace (performing artist: Royal Scots Dragoon Guards) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "Amazing how many cars they can put into such a tiny place". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "St. mary's sunrise" by Jeff L Commentary: "I got up around 6 a.m. and walked down to the st. mary's river, behind the Station Mall in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. It was very cold (-25 C or so), and the fog on the river was amazing. As the sun came up over the Mall, I got this nice shot from on the" | "Sunset - Sydney Harbour from M" by Craig Stump Commentary: "Manly, Sydney: Sunset - 7:10PM 3rd March 2003 - an amazing day to be on the harbour." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Count Leo Tolstoy | It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. |
William Feather | The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. |
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Health | Over the last decade, our knowledge about how the immune system works has grown at an amazing rate. Major gains have been made in recognizing and defining the role of this system in the development of MS lesions, giving scientists the ability to devise ways to alter the immune response. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | IMPROBABILITY, n. His tale he told with a solemn face And a tender, melancholy grace. Improbable 'twas, no doubt, When you came to think it out, But the fascinated crowd Their deep surprise avowed And all with a single voice averred 'Twas the most amazing thing they'd heard -- All save one who spake never a word, But sat as mum As if deaf and dumb, Serene, indifferent and unstirred. Then all the others turned to him And scrutinized him limb from limb -- Scanned him alive; But he seemed to thrive And tranquiler grow each minute, As if there were nothing in it. "What! what!" cried one, "are you not amazed At what our friend has told?" He raised Soberly then his eyes and gazed In a natural way And proceeded to say, As he crossed his feet on the mantel-shelf: "O no -- not at all; I'm a liar myself." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Bill Clinton | I don't know. I'm trying to get it done this year, but it's amazing. You know, I've got massive documents. I've saved every letter my mother wrote to me and that I wrote to her in college. |
Dean Cain | This artist is known for creating the most amazing visual illusions. Because believe it or not, what looks like a basketball is actually a belly. Finally able to take a good look at her new bedazzling belly, this future mom is amazed of the results. |
Donald Rumsfeld | It's an amazing job. It is so important to the country and it's so complex. But the great thing about it is you're dealing with such spectacular people, the men and women in uniform. |
James Dobson | Prayer to me is an outgrowths of a relationship. It's not ritual. It's not just chants. I'm talking to God. I'm talking to him as a friend and the amazing thing is he listens to me and to others who pray. |
Joe Esposito | Three days. But the thing about it, we all sat together and said, listen, this is going to be Elvis' last performance. Let's make sure it's a good one. And we all worked hard. It was amazing how smooth it went with all those people out there. |
Laura Schlessinger | Da, da, da, da, da, da. It is amazing how people chop away at each other. That's the one I have to work on a lot all the time, yeah, because I'm a very intense person. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Right away. I mean, I was a little bit nervous because I had a kid, I had a baby, Parker. I thought it would be weird to date people, you have a baby. But she's an amazing person. And she brings me tremendous joy. I'm very lucky, I feel. |
Rush Limbaugh | What's amazing is that JFK did not have trillions in projected federal surpluses when he implemented his tax cut. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Amazing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amazing" is used about 1,835 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 1,835 | 4,628 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "amazing". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Zoheth | N/A | Biblical | Amazing |
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Expression using "amazing": pretty Amazing New Stuff. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "amazing": amazing-looking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
amazing race | 5,729 | amazing video | 77 |
4 amazing race | 1,851 | amazing story | 75 |
amazing grace | 924 | amazing love | 73 |
the amazing | 681 | amazing pregnancy | 63 |
amazing grace lyrics | 484 | amazing cake mikes | 60 |
amazing fact | 271 | the amazing rhythm ace | 57 |
amazing ty | 252 | amazing grace song | 56 |
amazing spider man | 241 | amazing penetration | 54 |
amazing application race | 187 | 2 amazing race | 53 |
joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat | 180 | amazing lyrics | 53 |
amazing cbs race | 159 | amazing indian | 53 |
amazing nurse nanako | 159 | amazing cum | 53 |
3 amazing race | 159 | amazing downer slow | 49 |
amazing picture | 146 | words to amazing grace | 48 |
amazing design | 132 | amazing grace sheet music | 47 |
amazing josh kelley lyrics | 131 | amazing sex | 47 |
amazing anal | 103 | amazing savings | 46 |
5 amazing race | 102 | amazing jonathon | 44 |
amazing twin | 102 | amazing spider man movie | 44 |
amazing photo | 95 | amazing josh kelley | 42 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "amazing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | wonderbaarlik (astonishing, miraculous, wonderful). (various references) | |
Albanian | mahnitës (arresting, astonishing, astounding, enchanting, marvellous, marvelous), i habitshëm (astonishing, fabulous, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, oddish, portentous, strange, striking, unusual, wonderful). (various references) | |
Arabic | مذهل (astonishing, astounding, baffling, bewildering, confusing, dumbfounding, prodigious, spectacular, staggering, startling, stunning, stupendous), مدهش (agape, astonishing, astounding, awesome, baffling, dandy, dumbfounding, marvellous, marvelous, out of this world, phenomenal, prodigious, ripping, staggering, startling, striking, stunning, surprising, topping, trembling, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), بديع (admirable, adorable, excellent, fine, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, original, splendid, superb, unique, unprecedented, wonderful). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | удивителен (astonishing, astounding, dizzy, exclamatory, extraordinary, fantastic, fantastical, marvellous, marvelous, prodigious, remarkable, striking, stupendous, surprising, wonderful), поразителен (astounding, electric, overwhelming, snorting, spanking, striking, super), изумителен (astonishing, overwhelming, prodigious, splashing, startling, stupendous, surprising). (various references) | |
Chinese | 了不起 (extraordinary, terrific), 惊奇 (Amaze, Amazed, Marveled, Marveling, surprise, surprised, surprising). (various references) | |
Czech | vynikající (accomplished, beautiful, champion, chance, delicious, egregious, eminent, excellent, exquisite, fine, magnificent, notable, outstanding, preeminent, prize, prominent, star, sterling, superlative, wonderful), ohromující (crippling, overwhelming, stunning), úžasný (admirable, astonishing, bewildering, glorious, hot, nailing, phenomenal, prodigious, splendid, stupendous, terrific, tremendous, wonderful). (various references) | |
Dutch | verbazingwekkend (astonishing), bevreemdend (astonishing). (various references) | |
Esperanto | miriga (astonishing). (various references) | |
Finnish | hämmästyttävä (astounding, surprising). (various references) | |
French | ahurissant, abasourdissant, surprenant, stupéfiant, soufflant, phénoménal, inouï, incroyable, exceptionnel, étonnamment. (various references) | |
German | erstaunlich (admirable, amazingly, astonishing, astonishingly, astounding, extraordinary, miraculous, prodigious, prodigiously, staggeringly, striking, strikingly, stupendous, surprising, surprisingly). (various references) | |
Greek | καταπληκτικόσ (astounding, prodigious, startling, striking, stunning, stupendous, tremendous), που θαυμάζει (admiring), εκπληκτικός (phenomenal). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתמיה (astonishing, strange, surprising), מפליא (marvellous, prodigious, wonderful, wondrous), מפתיע (astonishing, astounding, surprising, unexpected), מרהיב עין (spectacular, wonderful), תמוה (enigmatic, mystifying, odd, peculiar, strange, surprising), פלאי (astounding, miraculous, wonderful). (various references) | |
Hungarian | meglepõ (striking, surprising, wondrous), elképesztõ (exorbitant, hair raising, stupendous), csodálatos (admirable, fine, marvellous, marvelous, mirabile dictu, miraculous, noble, out of this world, portentous, prodigious, wonderful, wondrous), bámulatos (gorgeous, marvellous, marvelous, prodigious, surprising, wonderful). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengajaibkan (miraculous), mengagumkan (amaze, astonish, astonishing, baffling). (various references) | |
Italian | stupefacente (astonishing, drug, narcotic, stupefacient, stupefying), sorprendente (admirable, astonishing, startling, surprising). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 驚くべき (astonishing, surprising, wonderful). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すさまじい (absurd, awful, dreadful, fierce, terrible, terrific, tremendous), すごい (dreadful, great, terrible, terrific, to a great extent, wonderful), おどろくべき (astonishing, surprising, wonderful), きょうてんどうち (astounding, startling, world-shaking). (various references) | |
Korean | 깜짝 놀라게 함. (various references) | |
Manx | thanvaneagh (astonishing), ard-yindyssagh (fantastic, outstanding, phenomenal, splendid). (various references) | |
Papiamen | asombroso (astonishing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amazingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | assombroso (astonishing, astounding, stunning, stupendous, surprising, wondrous), surpreendente (astonishing, startling, strange, striking, surprising, wondrous), maravilhoso (delightful, lovely, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, portentous, prodigious, unco, wonderful, wondrous), extraordinário (exquisite, extra, extraordinary, formidable, king-size, miraculous, particular, phenomenal, prodigious, rare, remarkable, sensational, shining, singular, special, sublime, surpassing, transcendent, tremendous, uncommon, unusual, unwonted), espantar-se (boggle), chocante (abrupt, filthy, harsh, jarring, knockdown, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, revolting, shocking, sickening, startling). (various references) | |
Romanian | uluitor (astounding, intriguing, mind-boggling, stunning), uimitor (astonishing, marvellous, prodigious, startling, striking, stupendous, surprising), nãstruşnic (terrible), nãprasnic (awful, impetuous, sudden, suddenly, terrible, tremendous, unexpected, violent), extraordinar (arch, astonishing, egregious, enormous, exceedingly, extra, extraordinary, extremely, fierce, marvellous, noble, out, phenomenal, phenomenally, prodigious, proud, rare, rattling, remarkable, special, striking, terrible, tremendous, uncommon, undreamed of, unimaginable, up to the nines, well, well I never, wonderful). (various references) | |
Russian | удивительный (astonishing, astounding, electrical, marvellous, miraculous, surprising, wonderful, wondrous). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zapanjujući (astounding, stupefying), iznenađujući (cracky). (various references) | |
Spanish | asombroso (appaling, appalling, astonishing, astounding, breathtaking, staggering, startling, stupendous, surprising), maravilloso (blissful, Dandy, delighted, delightsome, divine, dreamy, dressy, engaging, gorgeous, heavenly, knockout, lead, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, rare, stunning, well done, whimsical, wonderful, wondrous). (various references) | |
Swedish | häpnadsväckande (astounding, startling). (various references) | |
Turkish | ilginç (absorbing, curious, engrossing, exciting, far out, fastmoving, gripping, interesting, juicy, kooky, picturesque, quaint, quirky, taking), hayret verici (astonishing, astounding, bewildering, marvellous, marvelous, stunning, stupendous, surprising), hayran eden (admirable, entrancing), şaşırtıcı (astonishing, astounding, baffling, bewildering, colossal, confused, confusing, dazzling, incredible, intriguing, mind-bending, perplexing, puzzling, rum, spectacular, staggering, startling, striking, surprising, twisty), şaşılacak (astonishing, astounding, prodigious, wonderful, wondrous). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tдsin (marvelous, wonderful). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | разючий (peachy, ripping, smashing, snorting), дивовижний (electrical, extraordinary, heavenly, marvellous, marvelous, outlandish, portentous, prodigious, remarkable, striking, stupendous, surprising, wonderful), дивний (astonishing, astounding, bizarre, capricious, curious, freakish, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, original, out of the way, outlandish, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, strange, unaccountable, weird, wonderful, wondrous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | làm sửng sốt (astounding, startling), làm kinh ngạc (astounding, dazzling, surprising), làm hết sức ngạc nhiên. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | mira, mirifica, mirum, prodigiosus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "amazing": amazingly. (additional references) | |
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"Amazing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agazan, Ajazi, alasing, Amadigi, amain, amaizing, Amarin, amazin, amazine, ameling, amizing, amuzing, anazi, mazing, Ramazzini. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "amazing" (pronounced umā"zing) |
| 4 | -ā" z i ng | appraising, blazing, gazing, glazing, grazing, hazing, phasing, phrasing, praising, raising, razing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, arising, abusing, accusing, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amortizing, amusing, analyzing, arousing, authorizing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, confusing, criminalizing, criticizing, cruising, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, defusing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, diffusing, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, excusing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, fusing, galvanizing, generalizing, glamorizing, harmonizing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, infusing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, losing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, misusing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, musing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, oozing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, overusing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, perusing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, rationalizing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reorganizing, reusing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, schmoozing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, using, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-m-n-z" | |
-1 letter: magian, mazing. | |
-2 letters: again, amain, amiga, amnia, anima, gamin, mania, nizam, zamia. | |
-3 letters: agin, agma, amia, amin, anga, azan, gain, gama, magi, main, mana, mina, nazi, zing. | |
-4 letters: aga, aim, ain, ama, ami, ana, ani, gam, gan, gin, mag, man, mig, nag, nam, nim, zag, zig, zin. | |
-5 letters: aa, ag, ai, am, an, in, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-m-n-z" | |
+1 letter: magazine. | |
+2 letters: amazingly, magazines. | |
+3 letters: magazinist. | |
+4 letters: anatomizing, animalizing, aromatizing, dramatizing, magazinists, marginalize. | |
+5 letters: automatizing, axiomatizing, caramelizing, macadamizing, magnetizable, marginalized, marginalizes, newsmagazine, traumatizing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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