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| Main Entry: | amazing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | astonishing |
| Synonyms: | awesome, fascinating, incredible, marvelous, prodigious, shocking, stunning, surprising, unbelievable, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | amaze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surprise |
| Synonyms: | affect, alarm, astonish, astound, bewilder, blow away, blow one's mind, bowl over*, daze, dumbfound, electrify, flabbergast*, impress, move, perplex, put one away, shock, stagger, startle, strike, stun, stupefy, touch* |
| Notes: | amaze once meant 'alarm, terrify' but now means 'astonish'; surprise means 'meet with suddenly or without warning' |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | astonishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | surprising |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astounding, breathtaking, extraordinary, impressive, marvelous, miraculous, spectacular, staggering, startling, striking, stunning, stupendous, wonderful, wondrous, bewildering, stupefying |
| Antonyms: | boring, dull, expected |
| Main Entry: | breathtaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, awesome |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astonishing, awe-inspiring, exciting, hair-raising, impressive, magnificent, moving, overwhelming, spine-tingling, stunning, thrilling, heart-stirring, heart-stopping |
| Antonyms: | disgusting, ugly |
| Main Entry: | extraordinary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strange and wonderful |
| Synonyms: | amazing, bizarre, boss*, curious, exceptional, fantastic, flash*, gnarly*, heavy*, inconceivable, incredible, marvelous, odd, out of the ordinary, outstanding, particular, peculiar, phenomenal, rare, remarkable, singular, special, strange, stupendous, surprising, terrific, uncommon, unfamiliar, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unprecedented, unthinkable, unusual, weird, wicked*, fab, off beaten path, unwonted |
| Antonyms: | common, commonplace, customary, familiar, normal, ordinary, usual, unextraordinary, unsurprising |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mind-boggling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overwhelming |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astonishing, breathtaking, mind-blowing, spectacular, staggering, startling, stunning, stupendous, surprising, wonderful, eye-opening |
| Main Entry: | miraculous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | surprisingly wonderful |
| Synonyms: | amazing, anomalous, astonishing, astounding, awesome, extraordinary, fabulous, freakish, heavy, incredible, inexplicable, magical, marvelous, monstrous, phenomenal, preternatural, prodigious, spectacular, staggering, strange, stupendous, superhuman, superior, supernatural, unaccountable, unbelievable, unearthly, unimaginable, unreal, wondrous, numinous, stupefying, supermundane, supranatural, thaumaturgic, the utmost, wonderworking |
| Antonyms: | normal, usual |
| Main Entry: | overwhelming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overpowering |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astounding, breathtaking, devastating, exciting, mind-boggling, staggering, stunning, vast, crushing, eye-opening, overcoming, paralyzing, shattering |
| Main Entry: | portentous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exciting; foreboding |
| Synonyms: | alarming, amazing, apocalyptic, astounding, destined, doomed, exhilarating, extraordinary, fated, fateful, haunting, ill-boding, ill-fated, impending, important, inauspicious, inspiring, intriguing, ominous, phenomenal, prophetic, remarkable, suggestive, threatening, thrilling, augural, premonitory |
| Main Entry: | spectacular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wonderful, impressive |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astonishing, astounding, breathtaking, daring, dazzling, dramatic, eye-catching, fabulous, fantastic, grand, histrionic, magnificent, marked, marvelous, miraculous, prodigious, remarkable, sensational, splendid, staggering, striking, stunning, stupendous, theatrical, thrilling, wondrous, razzle-dazzle |
| Antonyms: | normal, ordinary, regular, usual, unspectacular |
| Main Entry: | staggering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overwhelming |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astonishing, astounding, distressing, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, shocking, stunning |
| Main Entry: | surprising |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unexpected |
| Synonyms: | accidental, amazing, astonishing, chance, extraordinary, fortuitous, impulsive, out of the blue*, remarkable, shocking, startling, stunning, sudden, unforeseen, unpredictable, wonderful, electrifying, from left field, unanticipated, unpredicted, without warning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tremendous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huge, overwhelming |
| Synonyms: | amazing, appalling, astounding, awesome, awful, blimp, colossal, deafening, dreadful, enormous, excellent, exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fearful, formidable, frightful, gargantuan, gigantic, great, humongous, immense, incredible, jumbo*, large, mammoth, marvelous, massive, monstrous, monumental, prodigious, stupendous, super, terrible, terrific, titanic, towering, vast, whale*, whopper, whopping, wonderful, cracking, great big, mondo |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, little, small, tiny, unimportant, underwhelming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unexpected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | surprising |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, accidental, amazing, astonishing, chance, fortuitous, impetuous, impulsive, instantaneous, out of the blue*, payback, prodigious, staggering, startling, stunning, sudden, swift, unforeseen, unheralded, unpredictable, wonderful, electrifying, eye-opening, from left field, not bargained for, not in the cards, unanticipated, unlooked-for, unpredicted |
| Antonyms: | expected |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unusual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | different |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, amazing, astonishing, atypical, awe-inspiring, awesome, bizarre, conspicuous, curious, distinguished, eminent, exceptional, extraordinary, far-out*, inconceivable, incredible, memorable, noteworthy, odd, out of the ordinary*, outstanding, phenomenal, prodigious, prominent, queer, rare, refreshing, remarkable, significant, singular, special, strange, surprising, uncommon, unconventional, unexpected, unfamiliar, unique, unparalleled, weird*, something else, unwonted |
| Antonyms: | common, familiar, normal, regular, standard, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wonderful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | great, extraordinary |
| Synonyms: | admirable, amazing, astonishing, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, brilliant, cool*, divine*, dynamite*, enjoyable, excellent, fabulous, fantastic, fine, groovy*, incredible, magnificent, marvelous, miraculous, outstanding, peachy*, phenomenal, pleasant, pleasing, prime, remarkable, sensational, staggering, startling, strange, stupendous, super, superb, surprising, swell, terrific, too much*, tremendous, unheard-of, wondrous, something else |
| Antonyms: | bad, lousy, poor, rotten |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | awe-inspiring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | magnificent |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astonishing, awesome, breathtaking, grand, impressive, majestic, mind-blowing*, remarkable, stunning, wonderful |
| Antonyms: | blah, boring, ordinary, unexciting, unimpressive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wondrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | remarkable |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astonishing, astounding, extraordinary, fascinating, marvelous, miraculous, striking, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | sensational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | startling, exaggerated |
| Synonyms: | X-rated*, amazing, astounding, breathtaking, coarse, colored, conspicuous, dramatic, emotional, excessive, exciting, extravagant, hair-raising, juicy*, livid, lurid, marked, melodramatic, noticeable, outstanding, piquant, pointed, prominent, pungent, remarkable, rough, salient, scandalous, shocking, signal, spectacular, staggering, stimulating, sultry, tabloid*, thrilling, vulgar, arresting, electrifying, horrifying, revealing, sensationalistic |
| Antonyms: | ordinary, run-of-the-mill, unexceptional, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incredible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | marvellous |
| Synonyms: | ace*, amazing, astonishing, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, extraordinary, fabulous, glorious, great, prodigious, superhuman*, unreal*, wonderful |
| Antonyms: | bad, poor, terrible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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