stupendous

[STUPEND.] To be wondered at; striking dumb by magnitude; marvelous, amazing; of astonishing magnitude or elevation. "And this was then thought a stupendous sum."Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. iii. stu-pěn-doŭs-lý, adv . [Eng. stupendous ; -ly .] In a stupendous manner or degree; marvelously. "So stupendously high were the almost perpendicular walls."- Field , Feb. 17, 1887. stu-pěn-doŭs-ne , s. [Eng. stupendous; -ne .] The quality or state of being stupendous. "Works, which from their stupendousne , should have taught them the greatne of the former." -Ellis : Knowledge of Divine Things , p. 270. *stu-pent, a. [Lat. stupens , pr. par. of stupeo = to be amazed.] Confounded, astounded, stunned into silence. "The human mind stands stupent ."- Carlyle : Diamond IMG:content-0460.png:[blocks in formation] hension. 2. Devoid of understanding; silly; dull of appre"Anne, when in good humor, was meekly stupid , and, when in bad humor, was sulkily stupid." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xv. 3. Characterized by or resulting from stupidity; sensele , nonsensical; as, a stupid mistake. B. As subst.: A stupid, silly person; a blockhead. stu-pid-i-ty, s. [Fr. stupid ité , from stupide = stupid (q. v.).1 *1. Insensibility to external influences; numbne of feeling; stupor, torpor. "The dreadful bellowing of whose strait-brac'd drums, To the French sounded like the dreadful doom; And them with such stupidity benumbs, As though the earth had groaned from her womb." Drayton: The Battle of Agin court . 2. Extreme dullne of apprehension; dull foolishne , sensele ne , folly. "Whose book of vulgar errors so finely exposes the monkish stupidity of the times." -Goldsmith : Polite Learn. ing , ch. vi. 3898