astounding
verbadjectiveattested in dialogue
- //əˈstaʊndɪŋ//
That astounds or astound.
verb
- 1
Also a form of astoundpresent participle and gerund of astound
adjective
- 1
That astounds or astound.
astounding success an astounding spectacle
[Y]ou ſhall heare the Scythian Tamburlaine: / Threatning the world with high aſtounding tearms / And ſcourging kingdomes with his conquering ſword.
Wasted in darkness down the pitchy wave, / We saw the Stygian pool her borders lave, / Fed by th’ astounding cataract on high.
Signor Jupe […] was also to exhibit "his astounding feat of throwing seventy-five hundred-weight in rapid succession backhanded over his head, thus forming a fountain of solid iron in mid-air, a feat never before attempted in this or any other country[…]."
Forms
- comparative
- more astounding
- superlative
- most astounding