To my astonishment, my money was gone.
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Astonishment
//əˈstɑːnɪʃmənt//
Synonyms for "astonishment" (46 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (23)
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1 entriesderived from
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4 entriesTranslations
86 translations across 39 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- θάμβος noun (amazement, great surprise)
Arabic
4 entries- تَعَجُّب noun (amazement, great surprise)
- دَهْشَة noun (amazement, great surprise)
- ذهول noun (amazement, great surprise)
- ذُهُول noun (amazement, great surprise)
Armenian
1 entries- զարմանք noun (amazement, great surprise)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- təəccüb noun (amazement, great surprise)
Belarusian
2 entries- здзіўле́нне noun (amazement, great surprise)
- падзі́ў noun (amazement, great surprise)
Bengali
2 entries- বিস্ময় noun (amazement, great surprise)
- বিস্ময় noun (amazing thing)
Bulgarian
2 entries- удивле́ние noun (amazement, great surprise)
- учу́дване noun (amazement, great surprise)
Catalan
2 entries- estorament noun (amazement, great surprise)
- sorpresa noun (amazement, great surprise)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 驚愕 /惊愕 noun (amazement, great surprise)
- 驚異 /惊异 noun (amazement, great surprise)
Czech
3 entries- podiv noun (amazement, great surprise)
- údiv noun (amazement, great surprise)
- úžas noun (amazement, great surprise)
Danish
1 entries- forbavselse noun (amazement, great surprise)
Faroese
1 entries- undran noun (amazement, great surprise)
Finnish
4 entries- hämmästyminen noun (amazement, great surprise)
- hämmästys noun (amazement, great surprise)
- kummallisuus noun (amazing thing)
- kummastuminen noun (amazement, great surprise)
French
1 entries- étonnement noun (amazement, great surprise)
Galician
4 entries- abraio noun (amazement, great surprise)
- aglaio noun (amazement, great surprise)
- infento noun (amazement, great surprise)
- medoña noun (amazement, great surprise)
German
3 entries- Erstaunen noun (amazement, great surprise)
- Staunen noun (amazement, great surprise)
- Verwunderung noun (amazement, great surprise)
Greek
3 entries- έκπληξη noun (amazement, great surprise)
- κατάπληξη noun (amazement, great surprise)
- σοκ noun (amazement, great surprise)
Icelandic
1 entries- undrun noun (amazement, great surprise)
Irish
1 entries- uafás noun (amazement, great surprise)
Italian
4 entries- attonimento noun (amazement, great surprise)
- meraviglia noun (amazement, great surprise)
- sbigottimento noun (amazement, great surprise)
- sorpresa noun (amazement, great surprise)
Japanese
2 entries- 驚き noun (amazement, great surprise)
- 驚愕 noun (amazement, great surprise)
Korean
2 entries- 놀라움 noun (amazement, great surprise)
- 놀람 noun (amazement, great surprise)
Macedonian
2 entries- зачудување noun (amazement, great surprise)
- чудење noun (amazement, great surprise)
Malay
1 entries- kekaguman noun (amazement, great surprise)
Malayalam
2 entries- വിസ്മയം noun (amazement, great surprise)
- വിസ്മയം noun (amazing thing)
Manx
1 entries- ard-yindys noun (amazement, great surprise)
Māori
1 entries- māharotanga noun (amazement, great surprise)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- شاشقینلق noun (amazement, great surprise)
Persian
1 entries- تعجب noun (amazement, great surprise)
Polish
4 entries- dziw noun (amazement, great surprise)
- dziw noun (amazing thing)
- osłupienie noun (amazement, great surprise)
- zdumienie noun (amazement, great surprise)
Portuguese
2 entries- surpresa noun (amazement, great surprise)
- surpresa noun (amazing thing)
Romanian
2 entries- surprindere noun (amazement, great surprise)
- uimire noun (amazement, great surprise)
Russian
2 entries- изумле́ние noun (amazement, great surprise)
- удивле́ние noun (amazement, great surprise)
Slovak
2 entries- údiv noun (amazement, great surprise)
- úžas noun (amazement, great surprise)
Spanish
4 entries- asombro noun (amazement, great surprise)
- estupefacción noun (amazement, great surprise)
- extrañeza noun (amazement, great surprise)
- sorpresa noun (amazement, great surprise)
Swedish
3 entries- förvåning noun (amazement, great surprise)
- häpenhet noun (amazement, great surprise)
- överraskning noun (amazing thing)
Tajik
1 entries- тааҷҷуб noun (amazement, great surprise)
Turkish
4 entries- sürpriz noun (amazement, great surprise)
- sürpriz noun (amazing thing)
- şaşkınlık noun (amazement, great surprise)
- şaşırtı noun (amazement, great surprise)
Ukrainian
2 entries- здивува́ння noun (amazement, great surprise)
- по́див noun (amazement, great surprise)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
Between astonishment and sorrow, she could not speak a word.
Source: tatoeba (18879)
Astonishment deprived me of speech.
Source: tatoeba (18881)
To everyone's astonishment, Mike won first prize in the speech contest.
Source: tatoeba (32179)
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