very surprising; difficult to believe:
She ran 100m in an astonishing 10.9 seconds. * I find it absolutely astonishing that you didn't like it.
astonishingly adverb:
Jack took the news astonishingly well. * Astonishingly, a crowd of several thousands turned out to hear him.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for astonishing is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is astonishing a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, astonishing is tagged as adjective.
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