Synonyms:
astounding, dumbfounding, dumfounding
Meaning: bewildering or striking dumb with wonder
Usage examples
Astounding!
Her astounding shrewdness!
The American told an astounding story.
Mr. Merrithew said "Let us go shooting bears," but even Jackie did not second this astounding proposition.
Such a blow must produce the most astounding effects when it occurs, but I am unable to tell you its probable date.
Marian Devereux had come back to Annandale with Arthur Pickering; my faith in her snapped like a reed at this astounding news.
It is the first ten that emerge from nothing, and commencing in a point, it is during them that consciousness, memory--all the faculties grow, and the experience of sense is so novel, crowded, and astounding.
There are no statistics, of course, by which we may compute the amount of suffering to mother and child from the use of such drugs, but we know that the total of physical weakness and disease must be astounding.
It was only after she had gone that I thought how astounding it would have been to me to hear a girl of her age show such an acquaintance with worldliness and scheming, had I not been personally so much concerned about one of the objects of her remarks.
The story told by Cooper Edgecombe, backed up by the articles taken from the person of the warrior whom he had slain in self-defence, certainly had its weight; while the brief and imperfect glimpse which he had won of yonder valley helped to bear out that astounding belief.