Astonishing

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Causing or fitted to cause astonishment; amazing; wonderful.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Causing astonishment in; causing to be astonished.
  • verb. Present participle of astonish.
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  • adjective. surprising greatly
  • adjective. so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm
  • Word Usage
    "One user of Arizona water, in astonishing quantity, is the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant."
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