For almost a year now, I've noticed an overabundance of the word 'amazing'. And it is truly beginning to piss me off. No, the treats I made were NOT amazing. They were Rice Krispies treats decorated with frosting, for Christ's sake. And if that honestly stops you in wonder, man, you need a HOBBY. The excellent Roget's New Millennium Thesaurus offers up the following as alternatives.
anomalous, astonishing, astounding, awesome, extraordinary, fabulous, fantasmo, far out, freakish, gas, heavy, incredible, inexplicable, magical, marvelous, monstrous, numinous, phenomenal, preternatural, prodigious, spectacular, staggering, strange, stupefying, stupendous, superhuman, superior, supermundane, supernatural, supranatural, thaumaturgic, the utmost, too much, unaccountable, unbelievable, unearthly, unimaginable, unreal, wonderworking, wondrousaces, astonishing, astounding, bang-up, best, breathtaking, cool, crack, dilly, doozie, extravagant, fab, fantastic, fictitious, first class, gone, greatest, groovy, immense, in spades, inconceivable, incredible, legendary, marvelous, mind-blowing, out-of-this-world, outrageous, peachy, phenomenal, primo, prodigious, rad, remarkable, spectacular, striking, stupendous, super, superb, terrific, top drawer, tops, turn-on, unbelievable, unreal, wicked, wondrous
Which raises the question for me, as a New Englander: whatever happened to 'wicked'??
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