STUPENDOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stupendous mean? 

• STUPENDOUS (adjective)
  The adjective STUPENDOUS has 1 sense:

1. so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe

  Familiarity information: STUPENDOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUPENDOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe

Synonyms:

colossal; prodigious; stupendous

Context example:

stupendous demand

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

 Context examples 

It was such a stupendous thing to know for certain that she put her hair in papers.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was oppressed by fatigue and hunger and far too unhappy to enjoy the gentle breezes of evening or the prospect of the sun setting behind the stupendous mountains of Jura.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The day's events had prepared him for the unknown to manifest itself in most stupendous and unthinkable ways.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

All the woes of tortured life, all its stupendous indictment of high heaven, its innumerable sorrows, seemed to be centered and condensed into that one dreadful, agonized cry.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Am I to take it that I have anything in common with him, so that we are, as it were, to stand together; or has he to gain from me some good so stupendous that my well-being is needful to him?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I remained in a recess of the rock, gazing on this wonderful and stupendous scene.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He was in authority; and if he ever saw me leaning against a tree, or a wall, or the house, he roared out from his lodge door in a stupendous voice, Hallo, you sir!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At dawn and at sunset the howler monkeys screamed together and the parrakeets broke into shrill chatter, but during the hot hours of the day only the full drone of insects, like the beat of a distant surf, filled the ear, while nothing moved amid the solemn vistas of stupendous trunks, fading away into the darkness which held us in.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous genius and mental activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans—of their subsequent degenerating—of the decline of that mighty empire, of chivalry, Christianity, and kings.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But the mingled reality and mystery of the whole show, the influence upon me of the poetry, the lights, the music, the company, the smooth stupendous changes of glittering and brilliant scenery, were so dazzling, and opened up such illimitable regions of delight, that when I came out into the rainy street, at twelve o'clock at night, I felt as if I had come from the clouds, where I had been leading a romantic life for ages, to a bawling, splashing, link-lighted, umbrella-struggling, hackney-coach-jostling, patten-clinking, muddy, miserable world.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)