amazing
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Definitions & Usage
present participle and gerund of amaze
Causing wonder and amazement; very surprising.
(informal) Possessing uniquely wonderful qualities; very good.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“Falling into her uſual Trance, ſhe at that inſtant wrought their Fancies to be perſuaded of the confuſed Articulation of Multitudes met as in a Fair, converſing and making a chattering, to the amazing of them all.”
— 1698, John Fryer, “The Present State of Persia. Chap. XIII. Of Their Bookmen and Books; of Their Religion and Religious Worship; of Their Notions in Philosophy; of Heaven and Hell: Their Astronomers, Physicians, and Lawyers.”, in A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. […], London: […] R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri[chard] Chiswell, letter V (Travels into Persia), page 375:
“How many things have men found out to the amazing of one another, to the wonderment of one another, to the begetting of endless commendations of one another in the world”
— 1848, John Bunyan, Robert Philip, The Greatness of the Soul: And the Unspeakableness of the Loss Thereof, T. Nelson, page 29:
“Amazing is judged relative what already exists, and Quake has the best underwater effects so far.”
— 1996 August 5, Tim Behrendsen, “Tim Behrendsen Lost and Spaced THE FINAL TRY”, in rec.games.computer.quake.misc (Usenet):