astonishing

[As*ton·ish*ing]

Something astonishing is astounding, staggering, stupefying, amazing, or incredible. It's not something you see every day.

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Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event.

Adjective S.
so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm; "such an enormous response was astonishing"; "an astounding achievement"; "the amount of money required was staggering"; "suffered a staggering defeat"; "the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying

Adjective S.
surprising greatly; "she does an amazing amount of work"; "the dog was capable of astonishing tricks"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Astonish

a.
Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event.


Astonishing

As*ton"ish*ing, a. Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event. Syn. -- Amazing; surprising; wonderful; marvelous. As*ton"ish*ing*ly, adv. -- As*ton"ish*ing*ness, n.

Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event.

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Usage Examples

I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

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Other Usage Examples

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

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