Talk:amazing
Are these really adjective/noun senses, or just regular inflections of amaze?— This unsigned comment was added by Dmh (talk • contribs) at 21:50, 21 June 2005.
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The adjective and noun sections are not actually distinct from the verbal -ing form. DCDuring TALK * Holiday Greetings! 18:55, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Keep, it meets our test for being an adjective, it's gradable. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:50, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
- What was I thinking? or smoking? DCDuring TALK * Holiday Greetings! 15:57, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
- You can withdraw that then? Mglovesfun (talk) 20:26, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
Speedy keep. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:30, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Delete, not a noun, none of the citations in the article use it as a noun AFAICT either. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:44, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Keep? The "amazing", as a noun, is simply an obscure "that which amazes (someone/thing)" or a collective "things which amaze (people)". Quite clearly fitting the use in the quotes. --HeWhoPonders 09:18, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
- No. It's like "the poor", "the rich", "the aged", "the young". Not really a noun. Plus the definition we have says it's an action, not a set of things. Equinox ◑ 09:55, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
- Right. There's hardly an English -ing-form that can't be used this way. DCDuring TALK 14:39, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
- Deleted. Equinox ◑ 21:41, 1 July 2010 (UTC)