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AMAZING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
Example:
Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent
Synonyms:
amazing; awe-inspiring; awesome; awful; awing
Classified under:
Similar:
impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Surprising greatly
Example:
the dog was capable of astonishing tricks
Synonyms:
amazing; astonishing
Classified under:
Similar:
surprising (causing surprise or wonder or amazement)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb amaze
Context examples:
Simulation neurons could also constitute simple precursors for the amazing cognitive capacities of humans, such as ‘Theory of Mind’.
(‘Mindreading’ neurons simulate decisions of social partners, University of Cambridge)
You remember the Gregorys; they are grown up amazing fine girls, but they will hardly speak to me, because Lucy is courted by a lieutenant.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
But some amazing experience had disturbed his native composure and left its traces in his bristling hair, his flushed, angry cheeks, and his flurried, excited manner.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And that you should have been so mistaken, is amazing!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Of all the amazing things which had happened, this seemed to have impressed my uncle most, and he recurred to it again and again.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"But I felt my body was moving, moving, moving so I went for it. This is amazing for me."
(Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets new world record at Chicago Marathon, Wikinews)
That is an amazing horrid book, is it not?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
"This lineage has an amazing evolutionary history and the algae now thrive in a much more diverse environment than hot springs."
(Red seaweeds, including those in sushi, thrive despite ancestor's loss of genes, National Science Foundation)
I know no sound to which I could compare this amazing tumult, which seemed to come from some spot within a few hundred yards of our camp.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"The coolness of you two rascals is amazing," began Mr. Pickwick, trying to get up an awful frown and only succeeding in producing an amiable smile.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
