astonishingly
21
4.0
- adverb
- /əˈstɑnɪʃɪŋli/
:
asombrosamente
- She solved the complex puzzle astonishingly quickly, surprising everyone around her.
- most astonishingly
The stars are astonishingly further away than the planets.
- The stars are astonishingly further away than the planets.
- And yet we live in a universe which is astonishingly rich and full of objects.
- And by the same token, AI can do some astonishingly positive things.
- This is an amazing car, absolutely astonishingly fast and brutal in every way.
- No, astonishingly, I've got no, Wikipedia does not know sheep.
- And it's, it's astonishingly insidious and toxic and, and fatal.
- We shot it in Pittsburgh, which is where it was set, and the young actors were astonishingly good.
- So the types of products that men and women use as sexual signals are astonishingly the same across cultures.
- It's an astonishingly expensive programming language which many of the world's most ludicrously rich hedge funds use.
- Their brains are astonishingly malleable, and they grow in response to the experiences and relationships that we expose them to.
- All of which I am astonishingly low at.
Examples
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So they embark on this transformation of production and astonishingly, instead of costing the company money, profits went up.
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And yet we live in a universe which is astonishingly rich and full of objects.
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I actually was impressed by how astonishingly off the mark you were.
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Something would happen in her body, and this astonishingly sweet, fresh smell filled the room.
Fiction book (1998) -
And by the same token, AI can do some astonishingly positive things.
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But the number of children known to survive either to marriage or adulthood is astonishingly small.
Academic text (1994) -
So we get this astonishingly beautiful ending, all in the Lydian mode.
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It's astonishingly wonderful, but it is not a miracle and it isn't magic.
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Their brains are astonishingly malleable, and they grow in response to the experiences and relationships that we expose them to.
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We inherited an astonishingly beautiful home and with it, we've accomplished extraordinary things.
Synonyms
272
2.5
In a way that people do not expect
184
3.5
To a very unusual or surprising degree
172
2.8
In a way that is very surprising and hard to believe
137
3.9
To a much higher level than usual
122
2.3
In a way that causes surprise or wonder
107
3.7
In a way that is very surprising or seems impossible
80
4.1
To a much higher level than usual
62
5.9
In a very surprising way that seems impossible
38
4.8
In a way that surprises or upsets people a lot
28
4.3
To do something in a very impressive or dramatic way
23
4.4
In a very beautiful or impressive way
17
5.2
To a very great degree
14
7.7
In a very unusual and surprising way
10
5.3
To a much higher level than usual
8
5.6
In a way that makes people feel very surprised
8
4.2
In a very beautiful or amazing way
7
6.7
To a very surprising degree that is hard to believe
6
4.3
Making people feel very surprised
3
4.4
Says that something is not expected but is true
2
6.1
In a very impressive way that surprises people
2
6.7
In a way that makes people feel great surprise and admiration
2
7.7
In a way that is very hard to imagine
2
9.2
In a way that makes people very surprised or impressed
1
8.2
In a way that is so great it cannot be understood or believed
1
8.4
In a way that is very surprising and hard to understand
In a very strange way that feels surprising
Antonyms
How Surprising
Surface Forms
Morphology
astonishingly = astonishing (transparent) = astonish + ing + ly
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'astonishing', which is transparently derived from the verb 'astonish'.
Etymology
The word astonishingly comes from astonish, a verb that once meant 'thunderstruck', like being hit suddenly by thunder. The ending -ly turns it into an adverb, so astonishingly means 'in a way that causes great surprise'.