Synonyms:
amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned
Meaning: filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock; "an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation"; "I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral"; "astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing"; "stood in stunned silence"; "stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses"
Usage examples
Lapierre was astounded.
The athlete was astounded.
"My dearest and much beloved, I assure you your remarks have astounded me not a little!
"It is a painful reflection to me," said Charles Darnay, quite astounded, "that I should have done him any wrong.
Though astounded, at first, by the uproar, Heyward was soon enabled to find its solution by the scene that followed.
He occasionally astounded his companions by such glimpses of occult science as that the world is round and that the sun is relatively stationary.
Stunned by the squashing blow, astounded and blinded with streams of gravy and wads of stuffing, he attempted to rise, but blow after blow from the fat pig fell upon his bewildered head.
So he read in them a first book and a second and a third and so on to the last of them, and each book astounded and delighted him more than that which preceded it, till he came to the end of them.
On the morning of May 1, 1915, Americans were astounded to see in the newspapers an advertisement, signed by the German Imperial Embassy, warning travelers of the dangers in the war zone and notifying them that any who ventured on British ships into that area did so at their own risk.
"The lord of La Palisse," continues the chronicler, "thought this a somewhat strange manner of proceeding; howbeit he hid his thought, and said to the secretary, 'I am astounded that the emperor did not send for my comrades and me for to deliberate more fully of this matter; howbeit you will tell him that I will send to fetch them, and when they are come I will show them the letter.