stupendous
/stjuˈpɛndəs/US/stuˈpɛndəs/
stupendous adjective: astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.
Adjective
stupendous (comparative more stupendous, superlative most stupendous)
- Astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.
- One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.
- The entrance to Fonthill—that truly cloud-capt palace, so fantastic and so transitory—was by two stupendous doors, which seemed to defy the strength of giants.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 80
- Of stunning excellence or degree; marvelous.
- The renovator created a stupendous new look for our house.
stupendous meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
stupendous in Hindi
- astonishingly great or large
- विस्मयकारी vismaykārī, ग़ज़ब ġazab
stupendous in Tamil
- கண்டிவைத்தல், மாபெரிய, வியத்தகு
stupendous in Marathi
- stupendous
- प्रचंड pracaṇḍa
stupendous in Urdu
- حیرت کن
More languagesFewer languages
- stupendous in Bengali
- বিস্ময়কর, বিশাল, অভূতপূর্ব
- stupendous in Malayalam
- ആശ്ചര്യപ്പെടത്തക്ക, മഹത്തായ, അത്ഭുതകരമായ
- stupendous in Kannada
- ಅಗಾಧ, ಭಾರೀ, ಅದ್ಭುತ, ಆಶ್ಚರ್ಯಕರ
- stupendous in Nepali
- प्रचंड pracaṇḍa
Examples of stupendous in a sentence
- At what speed would this energetic and neverdying one-celled animal carry out this stupendous task?
- This ability to continuously add new buoyancy chambers to their phragmocones allowed ancient cephalopods to reach truly stupendous sizes.
- There came maulers; huge, ungainly flying fortresses of stupendous might.
Synonyms of stupendous
Antonyms
Forms of stupendous
| comparative | more stupendous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most stupendous |
Origin of stupendous
First attested from 1547, from Late Latin stupendus (“stunning, amazing”), from the verb stupeō (“(I) am stunned”). Doublet of stupend (which is obsolete), and related to stupor and stupid.
Words formed from stupendous
Words that rhyme with stupendous
Questions about stupendous
- What does stupendous mean?
- Stupendous means astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.
- What is stupendous in Hindi?
- Stupendous in Hindi is विस्मयकारी (vismaykārī), ग़ज़ब (ġazab). See Stupendous meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is stupendous?
- Stupendous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce stupendous?
- Stupendous is pronounced /stuˈpɛndəs/ (US).
Words near stupendous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: stupendous (page history and authors); stupendous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); प्रचंड (Marathi) (page history and authors); stupendous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stupendous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stupendous (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stupendous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); प्रचंड (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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