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Vinony

amazing

adjective

  1. special; strange
  2. remarkable; interesting
  3. cause astonishment
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /əˈmeɪzɪŋ/ / [əˈmeɪ̯zɪŋ]

adj

Etymology: From amaze + -ing, from Old English āmasian.

  1. Causing wonder and amazement; very surprising.

    ““It’s been amazing, the amount of emails and congratulations,” the Snow White and the Huntsman star, 36, told Ryan Seacrest Friday on his radio show.”

  2. Possessing uniquely wonderful qualities; very good.

    ““I didn’t think I would be a fan of the swaddling, but the swaddling’s pretty amazing,” she says.”

    “2014, November 6, WAAY-TV (Huntsville, AL), VIDEO: "Sitting next to him was amazing" says student of General Via "I think it was pretty amazing that he picked our school out of a lot of schools to come speak to us about what he has done, and what our country has done, to help us gain our freedom," Mucci said, “sitting next to him was amazing.””

verb

Etymology: From amaze + -ing, from Old English āmasian.

  1. present participle and gerund of amaze

    “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.”

    “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”