Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Astonish
//əˈstɒnɪʃ//
Synonyms for "astonish" (60 found)
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Closest matches (12)
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Related words (30)
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1 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesderived
8 entriesetymologically related_to
10 entriesrelated to
3 entriesTranslations
53 translations across 31 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- καταπλήσσω verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Arabic
1 entries- أَذْهَلَ verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- heyrətləndimək verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- heyrətə salmaq verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Basque
1 entries- estonatu verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Bulgarian
2 entries- удивлявам verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- учудвам verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 震驚 /震惊 verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Czech
1 entries- ohromit verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Danish
1 entries- forbavse verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Dutch
1 entries- verbazen verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Esperanto
1 entries- mirigi verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Finnish
2 entries- hämmästyttää verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- ällistää verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
French
2 entries- surprendre verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- étonner verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Galician
4 entries- abraiar verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- anocer verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- anucir verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- atordoar verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
German
1 entries- erstaunen verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Greek
1 entries- εκπλήσσω verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Hebrew
1 entries- הדהים verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Hungarian
2 entries- megdöbbent verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- meglep verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Ido
2 entries- astonar verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- surprizegar verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Indonesian
1 entries- mengesima verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Italian
2 entries- sorprendere verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- stupire verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Japanese
1 entries- 驚かす verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Macedonian
2 entries- вчудо́види verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- за́чуди verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Māori
2 entries- whakaohomauri verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- whakaohorere verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Norman
1 entries- êtonner verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Polish
2 entries- zdumiewać verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- zdumieć verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Portuguese
2 entries- pasmar verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- surpreender verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Russian
4 entries- изуми́ть verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- изумля́ть verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- удиви́ть verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- удивля́ть verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Spanish
4 entries- anonadar verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- asombrar verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- pasmar verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- sorprender verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Swedish
2 entries- förbluffa verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- förvåna verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Ukrainian
2 entries- вражати verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
- дивувати verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿאַרגאַפֿן verb (to surprise, astound, flabbergast)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Source: tatoeba (667899)
Some people never fail to astonish me.
Source: tatoeba (688029)
Astonish your friends by teaching your dog to do backflips!
Source: tatoeba (717978)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.