AMAZING

amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing

(adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; “New York is an amazing city”; “the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight”; “the awesome complexity of the universe”; “this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath”- Melville; “Westminster Hall’s awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent”

amazing, astonishing

(adjective) surprising greatly; “she does an amazing amount of work”; “the dog was capable of astonishing tricks”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

amazing

present participle of amaze

Adjective

amazing (comparative more amazing, superlative most amazing)

Causing wonder and amazement; very surprising.

Possessing uniquely wonderful qualities.

Very good.

Synonyms

• See awesome

Source: Wiktionary

A*maz"ing, a.

Definition: Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace.

– A*maz"ing*ly, adv.

AMAZE

A*maze", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Amazing.] Etym: [Pref. a- + maze.]

1. To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.] A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak.

2. To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly. "Amazing Europe with her wit." Goldsmith. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David Matt. xii. 23.

Syn.

– To astonish; astound; confound; bewilder; perplex; surprise.

– Amaze, Astonish. Amazement includes the notion of bewilderment of difficulty accompanied by surprise. It expresses a state in which one does not know what to do, or to say, or to think. Hence we are amazed at what we can not in the least account for. Astonishment also implies surprise. It expresses a state in which one is stunned by the vastness or greatness of something, or struck with some degree of horror, as when one is overpowered by the

A*maze", v. i.

Definition: To be astounded. [Archaic] B. Taylor.

A*maze", v. t.

Definition: Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement. [Chiefly poetic] The wild, bewildered Of one to stone converted by amaze. Byron.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition