stupendous

stupendous
    adj 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" [syn: {colossal},
           {prodigious}, {stupendous}]
    

Stupendous \Stu*pen"dous\, a. [L. stupendus astonishing, p.
   future pass. of stupere to be astonished at. Cf. {Stupid}.]
   Astonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in
   magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile. "A stupendous
   sum." --Macaulay.
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         All are but parts of one stupendous whole. --Pope.
   [1913 Webster] -- {Stu*pen"dous*ly}, adv. --
   {Stu*pen"dous*ness}, n.
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96 Moby Thesaurus words for "stupendous":
      Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
      Homeric, abysmal, amazing, amplitudinous, astonishing, astounding,
      astronomic, astronomical, awesome, beguiling, bewildering,
      boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, cracking, elephantine,
      enigmatic, enormous, epic, exceptional, extensive, extraordinary,
      fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, galactic, giant, giantlike,
      gigantic, heroic, huge, immeasurable, immense, incomprehensible,
      inconceivable, incredible, indescribable, ineffable, infinite,
      jumbo, king-size, large, legendary, mammoth, marvelous, massive,
      massy, mighty, miraculous, monster, monstrous, monumental, mortal,
      mountainous, mythical, noteworthy, outlandish, outsize, overgrown,
      passing strange, phenomenal, portentous, prodigious, profound,
      puzzling, rare, remarkable, sensational, sizable, spacious,
      spectacular, staggering, strange, striking, stupefying, titanic,
      towering, tremendous, unexampled, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique,
      unparalleled, unprecedented, unspeakable, vast, voluminous,
      weighty, wonderful, wondrous