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発音

• (General American) IPA: /stuˈpɛndəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /stjuˈpɛndəs/
• 韻: -ɛndəs

形容詞

stupendous (comparative more stupendous, superlative most stupendous)

1. Astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.

   One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 80:

     The entrance to Fonthill—that truly cloud-capt palace, so fantastic and so transitory—was by two stupendous doors, which seemed to defy the strength of giants.

   • 1834, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii‎:

     Over the broadest there seemed to spring a cragged and stupendous arch, from which, as from the jaws of hell, gushed the sources of the sudden Phlegethon.

2. Of stunning excellence or degree; marvelous.

   The renovator created a stupendous new look for our house.

同意語

• colossal, enormous, huge, marvelous, prodigious, terrific, tremendous
• See also Thesaurus:large

反意語

• stupid
• See also Thesaurus:small

派生語

• stupendously
• stupendousness

関連する語

• stupid
• stupor

参照

• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.