Stupendous

Definition: Stupendous

Stupendous

Adjective

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".

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Date "stupendous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Stupendous \Stu*pen"dous\, adjective. [Latin expression stupendus astonishing, p. future pass. of stupere to be astonished at. Compare to Stupid.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Stupendous

Greatness

Vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible; marvelous.

Size

Huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic; prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite.

Wonder

Monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous; inconceivable, incredible; inimaginable, unimaginable; strange; (uncommon); passing strange.

Crosswords: Stupendous

A magnificent, opulent, tremendous, stupendous, gargantuan, bedazzlement, a sensual ravishment. (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• A Stupendous Effort: The 87th Indiana in the War of the Rebellion (reference)

• The Great Perpetual Learning Machine: Being a Stupendous Collection of Ideas, Games, Experiments, Activities, and Recommendations for Further Explora (reference)

• The Parable of Bartholomew Beaver and the Stupendous Splash: In Which the Windy Woods Campers Learn the Biblical Value of Encouragement (reference)

• The Sandwich Board Featuring : 130 Stupendous Sandwich Creations (reference)

• The Super, Stupendous and Tremendously Terrific Show-and-Tell Day (reference)

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John C. Fisher's stupendous musical production, The silver slipper by Owen Hall & Leslie Stuart, authors of Florodora. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ben-Hur Klaw & Erlanger's stupendous production. Credit: Library of Congress.

Klaw & Erlanger's stupendous production of Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace ; dramatized by Wm. Young, Esq. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Now, at this sad and breathless moment, we are plunged in the hunger and distress which are the aftermath of our stupendous struggle; but this will pass and may pass quickly, and there is no reason except human folly or sub-human crime which should deny to all the nations the inauguration and enjoyment of an age of plenty. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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He was the stupendous architect of a downfall, the successor of Charlemagne, of Louis XI.

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Albanian

i jashtëzakonshëm (egregious, emergency, exceeding, exceptional, exceptive, exclusive, extraordinary, heroic, inconceivable, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, sole, terrible, thumping, transcendent, transcendental, uncommon, unthinkable, unusual, wonderful). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملفت للنظر, ‏مذهل (amazing, astonishing, astounding, baffling, bewildering, confusing, dumbfounding, prodigious, spectacular, staggering, startling, stunning), ‏هائل (astronomic, astronomical, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, gargantuan, gigantesque, hugely, immense, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, portentous, prodigious, rip roaring, terrific, thumping, thundering, titanic, towering, tremendous, whopping, wicked, wide), ‏عجيب (amazement, bizarre, fanciful, freakish, funny, marvellous, marvelous, odd, odd jobs, peculiar, phenomenal, portentous, prestigious, puzzling, rats, rum, staring, tall, temperamental, weird, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, dazzling, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, in apple-pie order, irresistible, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, mighty, miraculous, noteworthy, out of this world, outstanding, palmy, picturesque, portentous, precious, prestigious, rattling, recherche, remarkable, ripening, ripping, sensational, showy, sightly, signal, singular, smash, smashing, solid, some, spanking, sparkling, splendid, stunning, super, superb, swell, terrific, topping, tremendous, uncommon, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), ‏شاذ (aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bastard, bizarre, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, far fetched, freak, intriguing, irregular, monstrous, moonstruck, odd, off beat, outlandish, preternatural, prodigious, queer, rogue, scatty, singular, thumping, wild). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удивителен (amazing, astonishing, astounding, dizzy, exclamatory, extraordinary, fantastic, fantastical, marvellous, marvelous, prodigious, remarkable, striking, surprising, wonderful), слисващ (breathtaking, stunning), изумителен (amazing, astonishing, overwhelming, prodigious, splashing, startling, surprising). (various references)

Chinese 

特好. (various references)

Czech

ohromný (dishy, enormous, formidable, gigantic, great, huge, immense, mean, splendid, terrific, towering, tremendous, vast, vasty, whacking), neuvìřitelný (astonishing, improbable, incredible, past belief, startling, unbelievable), úžasný (admirable, amazing, astonishing, bewildering, glorious, hot, nailing, phenomenal, prodigious, splendid, terrific, tremendous, wonderful). (various references)

Farsi 

گزاف (Bombastic, Costly, Exorbitant, Extortionary, Extravagant, High, Immense, Rodomontade, Steep, Tall, Unconscionable, Vainglory), حیرت اور (Marvelous, Problematic, Prodigious, Wondrous), عجیب (Eccentric, Extravagant, Marvelous, Rummy, Strange, Tremendous, Unco, Unfamiliar, Unfamiliarity), شگفت انگیز (Phenomenal), شگفت (Muse, Prodigious, Surprise, Wonder), بهت اور. (various references)

French

remarquable, prodigieux, fantastique (stunning), extraordinaire. (various references)

German

umwerfend (fantastic, shattering, staggering, staggeringly, upsetting), phantastisch (awesomeUS, bizarre, chimeric, cracking, fanciful, fantastic, fantastically, glorious, incredible, luscious, phenomenal, terrific, unreal, visionarily, visionary), enorm (enormous, enormously, formidable, giant, huge, immense, immensely, massive, monumental, thumping, tremendous, vast, whopping). (various references)

Greek 

καταπληκτικόσ (amazing, astounding, prodigious, startling, striking, stunning, tremendous), τεράστιοσ (enormous, gargantuan, huge, monster, prodigious). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"�"ים (appalling, astounding, overwhelming, staggering, stunning), ע� קי (colossal, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, huge, immense, mammoth, walloping), כביר (enormous, grand, huge, immense, mighty, terrific, thundering, tremendous), � פלא (divine, entrancing, fabulous, gorgeous, lovely, marvellous, splendid, superb, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Hungarian

elképesztően nagy. (various references)

Italian

stupendo (marvellous, marvelous, stunning, terrific, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Korean 

엄청난 (Fabulous). (various references)

Pig Latin

upendousstay

Portuguese

estupendo (boss, monumental, prodigious, sensational). (various references)

Romanian

surprinzãtor (astonishing, astonishingly, startling, strange, surprising, wonderful, wonderfully), uimitor (amazing, astonishing, marvellous, prodigious, startling, striking, surprising), prodigios (prodigious, prodigiously, stupendously), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide). (various references)

Russian 

изумительный (amazing, astonishing, marvellous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ogroman (enormous, gargantuan, huge, immense, jumbo, lumping, monster, oversized, swingeing, tremendous, vast, vasty, whopping), čudesan (miraculous, prodigious, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Spanish

estupendo (admirable, amazing, Dandy, divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, first rate, grand, great, heavenly, hotstuff, jenny ass, marvellous, marvelous, neat, rare, rattling, ripping, socko, stunning, super, super-duper, surprising, swell, terrific, wonderful, yippee), asombroso (amazing, appaling, appalling, astonishing, astounding, breathtaking, staggering, startling, surprising). (various references)

Swedish

förbluffande (amazing, staggering). (various references)

Turkish

muhteşem (August, corking, glorious, gorgeous, grand, imperial, lordly, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, majestic, noble, olympian, regal, resplendent, royal, slashing, solemn, spectacular, splendid, stately, superb), muazzam (colossal, egregious, enormous, fab, grandiose, great, howling, huge, immense, magnific, magnifical, mighty, puissant, spanking, tremendous, whacking), müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, beastly, colossal, deadly, devastating, devilish, dire, direful, fabulous, fearful, filthy, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, prodigious, ripping, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, superb, swell, tearing, terrible, terrific, thundering, unco, wild), hayret verici (amazing, astonishing, astounding, bewildering, marvellous, marvelous, stunning, surprising). (various references)

Ukrainian

колосальний (colossal, decuman, huge, monumental, ocean-wide, pyramidal, super-duper, terrific), дивовижний (amazing, electrical, extraordinary, heavenly, marvellous, marvelous, outlandish, portentous, prodigious, remarkable, striking, surprising, wonderful). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lạ lùng (astonishing, outlandish, queer, wondrous), kỳ diệu; vô cùng to lớn. (various references)

stupendus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stupendous": stupendously, stupendousness, stupendousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stupendous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stupdendous, stupendious, stupendus, stupensous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: outspends.

-2 letters: outspend, soundest, unposted, uptossed.

-3 letters: despots, dustups, duteous, outsped, pseudos, sendups, snouted, spoused, spouted, stepson, stounds, sunspot, suspend, tenuous, tonuses, tuneups, unposed, unsteps, unstops, upsends.

-4 letters: depots, despot, donuts, douses, dustup, estops, netops, nouses, nudest, onsets, onuses, opuses, ousted, pestos, pontes, posset, posted, pounds, pouted, pseudo, pseuds, ptoses, punted, puntos, putons, sendup.

+2 letters: stupendously.

+3 letters: superconducts.

+4 letters: stupendousness.

+5 letters: superconductors, superinductions.