stupendously
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6.1
- adverb
- /stəˈpɛndəsli/
- She achieved a stupendously high score on the exam, surpassing all expectations.
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Examples
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As far as legal arguments go, that appears to me to be a stupendously weak argument.
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The magician's performance was stupendously impressive, leaving the audience in awe.
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The unfortunate fact of the matter is that Call of Duty is stupendously successful.
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Life is doubtless peculiar for anyone who has a childhood or college friend who goes on to become stupendously successful and powerful.
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That's a stupendously phenomenal place to get to.
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Geoff's stupendously well-informed about all things practical, and I learned more in five minutes with him than I had in hours of online research.
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They're stupendously successful.
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If that's true, then that means that the origin of life on this planet was a stupendously improbable event.
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Then in the Gilded Age, Mrs. Vanderbilt and the 400, along with a stupendously productive industrial economy, made luxury somehow legitimate.
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Since September 4th of this year, I've had the privilege of being the art instructor for the stupendously amazing 9th-12th grade students of the Chesterton Academy in Edina, Minnesota (the West Minneapolis area).
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Synonyms
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3.5
To a very unusual or surprising degree
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3.9
To a much higher level than usual
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2.3
In a way that causes surprise or wonder
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1.0
In a very good and impressive way
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3.7
In a way that is very surprising or seems impossible
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4.1
To a much higher level than usual
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2.8
In a way that is very surprising and hard to believe
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4.3
To do something in a very impressive or dramatic way
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4.5
To a very high degree
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4.4
In a very beautiful or impressive way
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4.0
In a way that makes people very surprised
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3.5
To a very great degree
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5.2
To a very great degree
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4.6
In a very impressive and beautiful way
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4.3
In a very impressive and successful way
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3.8
In a way that makes people feel respect
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3.6
To a very high degree
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4.6
In a very impressive way
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3.9
In a way that impresses people very much
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4.2
In a very beautiful or amazing way
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4.3
Making people feel very surprised
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6.7
To a very surprising degree that is hard to believe
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5.8
To a very large degree
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6.8
In a very beautiful and impressive way that amazes people
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6.6
In a very impressive or grand way that seems heroic
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6.7
In a way that makes people feel great surprise and admiration
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7.7
In a very large and impressive way
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4.9
In a way that is much better than usual and impresses people
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4.7
In a very impressive way that makes people admire it
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8.4
To a very high degree
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8.3
In a bright and beautiful way that impresses people
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7.4
In a way that makes something look very tall or impressive
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9.9
In an extremely impressive way that seems perfect
How Impressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
stupendously = stupendous (semi-transparent) = stupend + ous + ly
Formation from 'stupendous' + '-ly' is regular, but 'stupendous' itself contains the rare combining form 'stupend' (not a standalone modern English word), so the full meaning is not fully transparent to learners.
Etymology
The word stupendously comes from stupendous, which comes from an old Latin root stupere meaning 'to be stunned' or 'amazed'. It is also related to the common word stupid, which long ago meant 'stunned'. So to do something stupendously is to do it in a way that leaves people very impressed or astonished.