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astounding
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective astounding has 2 senses
- astounding(s = adj.all) dumbfounding, dumfounding - bewildering or striking dumb with wonder; Array
- astounding(s = adj.all) astonishing, staggering, stupefying - 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"
CIDE DICTIONARY
astounding, a.
Of a nature to astound; astonishing; amazing; as, an astounding force, statement, or fact. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
astounding
amazing, appalling, astonishing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, breathtaking, confounding, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, fell, formidable, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, macabre, mind-boggling, miraculous, morbid, overwhelming, prodigious, redoubtable, schrecklich, shocking, spectacular, staggering, startling, stunning, stupendous, surprising, terrible, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
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