amazingadjective
uk/əˈmeɪ.zɪŋ/us/əˈmeɪ.zɪŋ/B1 extremely surprising:
This stain remover really works - it's amazing!
The new theatre is going to cost an amazing (= very large) amount of money.
It's amazing to think that the managing director is only 23.
It's amazing that no one else has applied for the job.
The amazing thing is that it was kept secret for so long.
What an amazing coincidence!
A2 informal approving very good:
This wine is really amazing.
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- If you compare house prices in the two areas, it's quite amazing how different they are.
- He concocted the most amazing dish from all sorts of unlikely ingredients.
- Rain forests are filled with amazing creatures.
- Coming to your screens shortly, the amazing adventures of 'Robin Hood'.
- What amazing train of thought led you from Napoleon to global warming?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Surprising and shocking
- a blinding flash idiom
- a bolt from/out of the blue idiom
- amaze
- astonish
- astonishing
- bolt
- breath
- earth-shattering
- expectation
- eye-opener
- faze
- flabbergast
- revelation
- staggering
- startle
- startling
- sting
- stunning
- stupefy
- thunderbolt
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Extremely good
amazingly
adverb uk/əˈmeɪ.zɪŋ.li/us/əˈmeɪ.zɪŋ.li/
B1
Amazingly enough, no one else has applied for the job.
The food was amazingly good.