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English

Etymology

amaze +? -ing, from Old English ?masian.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: ?-m?'z?ng, IPA^(key): /??me?z??/, [??me??z??]
• Rhymes: -e?z??

Verb

amazing

1. present participle of amaze
   • 1848, John Bunyan and Robert Philip, The Greatness of the Soul: And the Unspeakableness of the Loss Thereof, page 29, T. Nelson

     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

   • 1909, John Fryer and William Crooke, A New Account of East India and Persia: Being Nine Years' Travels, 1672-1681, page 92, Hakluyt Society

     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.

   • 1996 August 5, Tim Behrendsen, "Tim Behrendsen Lost and Spaced THE FINAL TRY", rec.games.computer.quake.misc, Usenet

     Amazing is judged relative what already exists, and Quake has the best underwater effects so far.

   • 1997 November 30, Sir Frederick, "Pro-Mormons are amazing also", alt.religion.mormon.fellowship, Usenet

     Reality, especially God's Reality is amazing. For instance that there is something rather than nothing is amazing. [...] Amazing is amazing.

   • 1999 July 13, Irma Dobkin and Mary Jo Peterson, Gracious Spaces, page xix, McGraw-Hill Professional

     The amazing is happening.

   • 2000 March 24, "Shadow", "Return of the Fulgore Rant!", alt.fan.dragons, Usenet

     All that is impossibly amazing is considered nothing, and the impossibly amazing is considered normal.

   • 2001 February 3, Brian, "D3 weird FPS", alt.games.descent Usenet

     The amazing is that, in EXACTLY the same situation, the demo2 doesn't show this problem.

   • 2003 June 23, Thomas Bernhard, Three Novellas, page 31, University of Chicago Press

     Everything that amazes has its method, until we notice that the amazing is not amazing, has no method.

   • 2004 October 23, MgClearwater, "George says: Joe and Brian stay..", alt.sports.baseball.ny-yankees, Usenet

     Sheffield is an amazing athlete, how much of the amazing is provided from the Chemlab.

   • 2006 May 16, Simon Baird, "monkeyGTD is amazing- a few questions and suggestions", GTD TiddlyWiki, Google goups

     Cool! Of course 99% of the amazing is due to the "powered by TiddlyWiki" part of MonkeyGTD.. :)

Adjective

amazing (comparative more amazing, superlative most amazing)

1. Causing wonder and amazement; very surprising.
2. Possessing uniquely wonderful qualities.
   • 2014, November 8, Nick McCarvel, "Wozniacki's marathon debut was amazing, Djokovic says", USA TODAY Sports

     "Running a marathon is definitely an amazing experience."

3. Very good.
   • 2014, November 6, WAAY-TV (Huntsville, AL), VIDEO: "Sitting next to him was amazing" says student of General Via

     "I think it was pretty amazing that he picked our school out of a lot of schools to come speak to us about what he has done, and what our country has done, to help us gain our freedom," Mucci said, “sitting next to him was amazing.”

   • 2015, June 10, Lindsey Bever, "Morning Mix: Another reason seeing-eye dogs are amazing"[1]

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:awesome

Derived terms

• amazingly
• amazingness

Related terms

• amazement

Translations

References

• amazing at OneLook Dictionary Search
• amazing in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• amazing in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Middle English *amasen (“to bewilder, perplex”), from Old English ?masian (“to confuse, astonish”), from ?- (perfective prefix) + *masian (“to confound”), equivalent to a- +? maze.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??me?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z

Verb

amaze (third-person singular simple present amazes, present participle amazing, simple past and past participle amazed)

1. (transitive) To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex. [from 16th c.]
   • 1759, Oliver Goldsmith, The Present State of Polite Learning

     Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity.

2. (intransitive) To undergo amazement; to be astounded.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of B. Taylor to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious. [13th-17th c.]
4. (obsolete) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
5. (obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic. [16th-18th c.]
   • , New York Review Books 2001, p.261:

     [Fear] amazeth many men that are to speak or show themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages […]

Related terms

• amazing
• amazement

Translations

Noun

amaze (uncountable)

1. (now poetic) Amazement, astonishment. [from 16th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:

     All in amaze he suddenly vp start / With sword in hand, and with the old man went [...].

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 103:

     Shattuck looked at him in amaze.

   • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1361:

     She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze, dazed by her own behaviour.

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Alternative forms

• amize

Noun

amaze

1. wonder, amazement

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN