Stupendous vs Miracle - What's the difference?
stupendous | miracle |
Astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.
Of stunning volume, degree, or excellence; marvelous.
A wonderful event occurring in the physical world attributed to supernatural powers.
A fortunate outcome that prevails despite overwhelming odds against it.
* 1966 November 25, "A Great Document Made by Wisdom and Luck", in Life , volume 61, number 22, page 13:
* 1993 , Hatch N. Gardner and Frank H. Winter, P-51 Mustang (Turner Publishing Company), page 78:
* 2003 , Eric Lionel Jones, The European miracle: environments, economies, and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia (Cambridge University Press), page 218:
An awesome and exceptional example of something
* 1847 , Honoré de Balzac, Scenes from a Courtesan's Life , page 323:
* 2008 , Joseph R. Conlin, The American Past: A Survey of American History (Cengage Learning), page 670:
As an adjective stupendous
is astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.As a noun miracle is
a wonderful event occurring in the physical world attributed to supernatural powers.stupendous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.
- The renovators created a stupendous new look for our house.
Synonyms
* colossal, enormous, huge, marvelous, prodigious, terrific, tremendous * See alsoDerived terms
* stupendously * stupendousnessReferences
* Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.miracle
English
(wikipedia miracle)Noun
(en noun)- Many religious beliefs are based on miracles .
- An example of a miracle associated with Muhammad is the splitting of the moon.
- Secondly, it was a miracle that a document hammered out with such difficulty, satisfying very few of its authors completely and satisfying some of them very little, would turn out to be the most successful political invention in history.
- It was a miracle that I survived that ditching in the high waves because I had my seat belt and shoulder harness unbuckled in anticipation of bailing out.
- Seen in this light it was a miracle of economic history that Europe was able to undertake so much higher a proportion of its expansion overseas, and secure a massive injection of resources and big markets without a commensurate growth in her numbers.
- The home of our kings, over which you tread as you pace the immense hall known as the Salle des Pas-Perdus, was a miracle of architecture.
- It was a miracle' of engineering that made possible, with the cheap electricity the dam generated, another kind of ' miracle : the bizarre, superilluminated city of Las Vegas, Nevada.