amazing

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   inspiring awe or admiration or wonder

   New York is an amazing city

2. 2
   adj

   surprising greatly

   They do an amazing amount of work.

3. 3
   verb

   present participle and gerund of amaze

   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.

4. 4
   adj

   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.

5. 5
   adj

   Possessing uniquely wonderful qualities; very good.

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

Etymology

From amaze + -ing, from Old English āmasian.