amazing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of amaze

   The amazing is happening.

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

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   Falling into her uſual Trance, ſhe at that inſtant wrought their 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.

   1698, John Fryer, “The Present State of Persia. Chap. XIII. Of Their Bookmen and Books; of Their Religion and Religious Worship; of Their Notions in Philosophy; of Heaven and Hell: Their Astronomers, Physicians, and Lawyers.”, in A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. […], London: […] R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri[chard] Chiswell, letter V (Travels into Persia), page 375

   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

   1848, John Bunyan, Robert Philip, The Greatness of the Soul: And the Unspeakableness of the Loss Thereof, T. Nelson, page 29

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

   1996 August 5, Tim Behrendsen, “Tim Behrendsen Lost and Spaced THE FINAL TRY”, in rec.games.computer.quake.misc (Usenet)

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

   1997 November 30, Sir Frederick, “Pro-Mormons are amazing also”, in alt.religion.mormon.fellowship (Usenet)

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

   2000 March 24, Shadow, “Return of the Fulgore Rant!”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet)

comparative more amazing · superlative most amazing

1. Causing wonder and amazement; very surprising.

   “It’s been amazing, the amount of emails and congratulations,” the Snow White and the Huntsman star, 36, told Ryan Seacrest Friday on his radio show.

   2012 March 16, “Charlize Theron Says Swaddling’s ‘Pretty Amazing’”, in People Magazine

2. informalPossessing uniquely wonderful qualities; very good.

   2014, November 8, Nick McCarvel, "Wozniacki's marathon debut was amazing, Djokovic says", USA TODAY Sports "Running a marathon is definitely an amazing experience."

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   “I didn’t think I would be a fan of the swaddling, but the swaddling’s pretty amazing,” she says.

   2012 March 16, “Charlize Theron Says Swaddling’s ‘Pretty Amazing’”, in People Magazine

   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.”