Stupendous

Stupendous means amazing or awesome, which interprets the idea that something is so great in size, force, or extent that it causes impressive feeling.
Given the stupendous success of the Model T, Ford dominated the market for popularly priced cars.
Microsoft’s move in January to spend a stupendous $68.7 billion on Activision Blizzard was supposed to signal a golden era dawning for the video game sector.
In the center of Beijing’s booming commercial district, with soaring office towers, gleaming shopping malls and luxury apartment complexes, sits a shabby, four-story building with an office that houses stupendous wealth.
Last week another interesting paper appeared on arxiv.org, the stupendous online archive depository for research preprints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.

Stupendous这个单词为形容词，其表示“something is so great in size, force, or extent that it causes impressive feeling”这一含义，即“令人惊叹的/了不起的”，与awesome /amazing /prodigious /monstrous /tremendous这些单词构成近义词。需要说明的是，这个单词既可以用于表示特定对象由于其物理特性（大小、力量、空间等）给人留下“震撼”的感受，也可以用于特定对象由于其抽象特征（程度、范围等）给某人留下深刻印象。
具体使用场景如下：

Jeff Bezos announced he will donate a majority of his $124 billion fortune: that is a stupendous amount of money. （杰夫贝佐斯宣布他会捐出他1240亿美金的大部分：那是一笔数目不小的数量。）
–Business
It would take a stupendous effort to improve your D in history to an A.（要想把历史成绩从D提到A需要花费巨大的努力。）
–Education
The Shanghai Tower rose to a stupendous height of 632 meters. （上海中心高度达到巨大的632米。）
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Though the company is privately held and does not respond to questions about its finances, it is evident that craigslist earns stupendous amounts of cash.（尽管该公司是私人控股的，并且没有回应有关其财务状况的问题，但很明显，craigslist赚取了巨量的现金。）
–News