Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overwhelming |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astonishing, astounding, distressing, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, shocking, stunning |
| Main Entry: | stagger |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | astound, shock |
| Synonyms: | amaze, astonish, boggle, bowl over, confound, consternate, devastate, dumbfound, flabbergast, floor*, give a shock, nonplus, overpower, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, puzzle, shake, shatter, startle, strike dumb, stump, stun, stupefy, surprise, take aback, take breath away, throw off balance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | astonishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | surprising |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astounding, bewildering, breathtaking, extraordinary, impressive, marvelous, miraculous, spectacular, staggering, startling, striking, stunning, stupefying, stupendous, wonderful, wondrous |
| Antonyms: | boring, dull, expected |
| Main Entry: | dizzy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light-headed, confused |
| Synonyms: | addled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, blind, blinded, dazed, dazzled, distracted, disturbed, dumb, dumbfounded, faint, gaga, giddy, groggy, hazy, light, muddled, off balance, out of control, punch-drunk, punchy, puzzled, reeling, shaky, slap-happy, staggered, staggering, swimming*, tipsy, unsteady, upset, vertiginous, weak in the knees, weak-kneed, whirling, wobbly, woozy |
| Antonyms: | clear, clear-headed, unconfused |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | formidable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, overwhelming |
| Synonyms: | all-powerful, arduous, awesome, ballbuster, challenging, colossal, dismaying, effortful, great, hard, impressive, indomitable, intimidating, labored, laborious, mammoth, mighty, murder*, onerous, overpowering, powerful, puissant, rough go, rough*, staggering, strenuous, tall order, toilsome, tough proposition, tough*, tremendous, uphill |
| Antonyms: | easy, not hard, pleasant, trivial |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | groggy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dizzy, stunned |
| Synonyms: | befuddled, confused, dazed, dopey, drunken, faint, hazy, out of it, punch-drunk, punchy, reeling, shaky, slaphappy, staggering, stupefied, swaying, tired, unsteady, weak, whirling, wobbly, woozy |
| Antonyms: | clear, clear-headed, cognizant |
| Main Entry: | inconceivable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beyond reason, belief |
| Synonyms: | extraordinary, fantastic, incomprehensible, implausible, impossible, improbable, incogitable, incredible, insupposable, mind-boggling, phony, rare, reachy, staggering, strange, thin*, unbelievable, unconvincing, unheard-of, unimaginable, unknowable, unlikely, unsubstantial, unthinkable, weak*, won't fly, won't wash |
| Antonyms: | believable, conceivable, fathomable, imaginable, reasonable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | marvelous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard to believe; amazing |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, bewildering, breathtaking, confounding, difficult to believe, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, implausible, improbable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, miraculous, phenomenal, prodigious, remarkable, singular, spectacular, staggering, strange, striking, stunning, stupendous, supernatural, surprising, unbelievable, unimaginable, unlikely, unusual, wonderful, wondrous |
| Antonyms: | believable, expected, ordinary, plain, unamazing |
| Main Entry: | mind-blowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazing, intense |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, eye-opening, hallucinatory, mind-altering, mind-boggling, overwhelming, psychedelic, staggering, stunning, wonderful |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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