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Definition of Stupendous
1. Adjective. So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe. "Stupendous demand"
Definition of Stupendous
1. a. Astonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile.
Definition of Stupendous
1. Adjective. Astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous. ¹
2. Adjective. Of stunning volume, degree, or excellence; marvelous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stupendous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stupendous
Literary usage of Stupendous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole. Pope, Essay on Man, i. 267. Like reptiles
in a corner of some stupendous palace, we peep from our holes. ..."
2. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... Rayonne. but are repulsed and the stupendous bridge is cast—Citadel invested
after a severe action—Lord Wellington passes the Gave d'Oloron and invests ..."
3. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1862)
"... but are repulsed, and the stupendous bridge is cast—Citadel invested after a
severe action—Lord Wellington passes the Gave of Oleron, ..."
4. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"It is the one stupendous trial and peril of our national life. ... If a resort
to this stupendous innovation is necessary and is safe ; if it will work ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"Coming down from the earliest times to the year 1762, Anderson's work is a monument
of stupendous industry. Composed in the form of anna Is, ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... without a blush and without a smile, the voyage of the goddess from the shores
of Pergamus to the mouth of the Tiber ; and the stupendous miracle w hich ..."
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