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amazing

 
Adjective amazing has 2 senses
  1. amazing, astonishing - surprising greatly; "she does an amazing amount of work"; "the dog was capable of astonishing tricks"
    Antonym: unsurprising (indirect, via surprising)
  2. amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing - 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's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
    Antonym: unimpressive (indirect, via impressive)
Verb amaze has 2 senses
  1. amaze, astonish, astound - affect with wonder; "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!"
    --1 is one way to surprise
    Derived form: noun amazement1
    Sample sentences:
    The good news will amaze her
    The performance is likely to amaze Sue
  2. perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound - be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
    --2 is one way to confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate
    Sample sentences:
    The bad news will amaze him
    The good news will amaze her
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