It's astonishing, the size of his head.
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Astonishing
//əˈstɒnɪʃɪŋ//
Synonyms for "astonishing" (58 found)
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Related words (29)
miraculousnotablenoteworthynoticeableof markoutstandingoverwhelmingphenomenalportentousprodigiousremarkablesensationalshockingsignalspectacularstaggeringstartlingstrangestrikingstunning
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4 entriesderived from
1 entriesform of
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
27 translations across 21 languages.
Ainu
1 entries- ヤイヌマレ adj (causing astonishment)
Arabic
2 entries- مذهل adj (causing astonishment)
- مُذْهِل adj (causing astonishment)
Catalan
1 entries- sorprenent adj (causing astonishment)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 意想不到的 adj (causing astonishment)
- 驚人的 /惊人的 adj (causing astonishment)
Cornish
1 entries- revedh adj (causing astonishment)
Esperanto
1 entries- miriga adj (causing astonishment)
Finnish
1 entries- hämmästyttävä adj (causing astonishment)
French
1 entries- étonnant adj (causing astonishment)
Galician
2 entries- abraiante adj (causing astonishment)
- abraiento adj (causing astonishment)
German
1 entries- verwunderlich adj (causing astonishment)
Icelandic
1 entries- undraverður adj (causing astonishment)
Indonesian
1 entries- mengesimakan adj (causing astonishment)
Irish
1 entries- uafásach adj (causing astonishment)
Italian
1 entries- sorprendente adj (causing astonishment)
Norman
1 entries- êtonnant adj (causing astonishment)
Polish
1 entries- zdumiewający adj (causing astonishment)
Portuguese
2 entries- assombroso adj (causing astonishment)
- surpreendente adj (causing astonishment)
Russian
2 entries- изуми́тельный adj (causing astonishment)
- удиви́тельный adj (causing astonishment)
Spanish
2 entries- asombroso adj (causing astonishment)
- pasmoso adj (causing astonishment)
Tocharian B
1 entries- ākteke adj (causing astonishment)
Turkish
1 entries- şaşırtıcı adj (causing astonishment)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.
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It is astonishing to witness that the Iranians, onto whom the Arabs imposed Islam through military defeat, have become its most zealous followers to the point of oppressing those of Zoroastrianism, though it is the religion of their own fathers. A kind of Stockholm syndrome on the national scale.
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It was completely astonishing, as you would expect.
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