Enormous vs Amazing - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
*, New York 2001, p.105:
(obsolete) Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.
*, II.12:
Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
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* 1909 , John Fryer and William Crooke, A New Account of East India and Persia: Being Nine Years' Travels, 1672-1681 , page 92, Hakluyt Society
* 1996 August 5, Tim Behrendsen, "Tim Behrendsen Lost and Spaced THE FINAL TRY", rec.games.computer.quake.misc, Usenet
* 1997 November 30, Sir Frederick, "Pro-Mormons are amazing also", alt.religion.mormon.fellowship, Usenet
* 1999 July 13, Irma Dobkin and Mary Jo Peterson, Gracious Spaces , page xix, McGraw-Hill Professional
* 2000 March 24, "Shadow", "Return of the Fulgore Rant!", alt.fan.dragons, Usenet
* 2001 February 3, Brian, "D3 weird FPS", alt.games.descent Usenet
* 2003 June 23, Thomas Bernhard, Three Novellas , page 31, University of Chicago Press
* 2004 October 23, MgClearwater, "George says: Joe and Brian stay..", alt.sports.baseball.ny-yankees, Usenet
* 2006 May 16, Simon Baird, "monkeyGTD is amazing- a few questions and suggestions", GTD TiddlyWiki, Google goups
Enormous is a related term of amazing.
As adjectives the difference between enormous and amazing
is that enormous is (obsolete) deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary while amazing is causing wonder and amazement; possessing uniquely wonderful qualities.As a verb amazing is
.enormous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- all shall be rather enforced than hindered, except they be dismembered, or grievously deformed, infirm, or visited with some enormous hereditary disease is body or mind.
- how apt wee are to receive all impressions, and chiefly the most wicked and enormous .
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}
citation, passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
Synonyms
* massive * huge * gigantic * humongous * See alsoAnagrams
*amazing
English
Verb
(head)- 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
- 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.
- Amazing is judged relative what already exists, and Quake has the best underwater effects so far.
- Reality, especially God's Reality is amazing. For instance that there is something rather than nothing is amazing. [... ] Amazing is amazing.
- The amazing is happening.
- All that is impossibly amazing is considered nothing, and the impossibly amazing is considered normal.
- The amazing is that, in EXACTLY the same situation, the demo2 doesn't show this problem.
- Everything that amazes has its method, until we notice that the amazing is not amazing, has no method.
- Sheffield is an amazing athlete, how much of the amazing is provided from the Chemlab.
- Cool! Of course 99% of the amazing is due to the "powered by TiddlyWiki" part of MonkeyGTD.. :)
