AMAZING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amazing mean? 

• AMAZING (adjective)
  The adjective AMAZING has 2 senses:

1. surprising greatly

2. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder

  Familiarity information: AMAZING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMAZING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surprising greatly

Synonyms:

amazing; astonishing

Context example:

the dog was capable of astonishing tricks

Similar:

surprising (causing surprise or wonder or amazement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder

Synonyms:

amazing; awe-inspiring; awesome; awful; awing

Context example:

Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent

Similar:

impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)

 Context examples 

“It is amazing to me,” said Bingley, “how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“Snake-catcher is what I call them, and Teddy is amazing quick on cobras. I have one here without the fangs, and Teddy catches it every night to please the folk in the canteen.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Never had the spirit of adventure lured him more strongly than on this amazing exploration of the realm of mind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Nature is an amazing architect. Bamboo is structured in a really clever way,” said Darshil Shah, a researcher in Cambridge University’s Department of Architecture, who led the study.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

Mosquitoes have an amazing ability to zero in on us from afar and head straight for our bare skin.

(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)

“Fire!” The shout must have rung over Norwood. It had hardly died away when an amazing thing happened.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To see Miss Mowcher standing over him, looking at his rich profusion of brown hair through a large round magnifying glass, which she took out of her pocket, was a most amazing spectacle.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This is really an amazing result, and future measurements by Juno will help us understand how the transition works between the weather layer and the rigid body below.

(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)

Giant trees like the ones we found are simply awe-inspiring, they remind us how amazing the Amazon rainforest is, and how important it is to preserve it.

(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)

Your outlook for amazing change and lucky breaks at work is absolutely extraordinary.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)