Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Causing or fitted to cause astonishment; amazing; wonderful. Synonyms Amazing, surprising, wonderful, marvelous.
Wiktionary
- adj. Causing astonishment in; causing to be astonished.
- v. present participle of astonish.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. surprising greatly
- adj. so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm
Examples
“One user of Arizona water, in astonishing quantity, is the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.”
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“What I found a bit astonishing is the few who choose to respond to those rejections with a derogatory remarks towards the editor (s).”
“What I find a bit astonishing is that folks encourage others to do the same.”
“What's astonishing is the wide and deep support BIAW has received from the rest of Washington's business community, which often sits out these fights lest it upset its union and Democratic masters.”
“What's truly astonishing is that this woman is literally trying to purchase an election and the best she can get is layaway.”
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“Fifteen years of recession, from which the country is only now emerging, while the US economy happily continued to grow and create wealth in astonishing proportions, seemingly unaware that is was supposed to have been “defeated” by Japan.”
“What was astonishing is that there are product recalls almost every day here in the U.S.!”
“So a half-year after they both invoked "South Park," the lives of Chesser and Norris have turned in astonishing ways:”
“Warner is one of the most inventive, intelligent, and plain astonishing British writers of the twentieth century, fully the equal of such contemporaries of hers as Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Green, not to mention the slightly older Virginia Woolf.”
“What's really astonishing is that Deeds used to tell people privately that he was sincerely pro-life (and not in the Clinton weasel, ie meaningless, way). regards,”
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