amazing
ama·zing
adjective
1.
- “she does an amazing amount of work”
- “the dog was capable of astonishing tricks”
2.
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”
Origin
From amaze + -ing, from Old English āmasian.
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