astonishing

/əs'stɔniʃiɳ/

Thân thiện

The magician performed an astonishing trick for the children.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Causing great surprise or amazement; extremely impressive or difficult to believe: Describes something that is so surprising or impressive that it overwhelms one's expectations or understanding.

Usage

• As an attributive adjective (before a noun): Used to directly modify a noun, emphasizing the surprising quality of the thing itself.
  • The magician performed an astonishing trick.
  • They made astonishing progress in just one week.
• As a predicative adjective (after linking verbs like 'be', 'seem', 'find'): Used to describe the subject's state or the speaker's perception.
  • The final score was astonishing.
  • I find her resilience truly astonishing.

Examples

Advanced Usage

• "Nothing short of astonishing": An emphatic phrase used to state that something is completely and utterly amazing.
  • Her recovery from the injury was nothing short of astonishing.
• Used in exclamations: Often found in exclamatory sentences to express strong surprise.
  • What an astonishing result!

Variants and Related Words

• Astonish (verb): To fill with sudden and great wonder or surprise.
  • The news will astonish everyone.
• Astonished (adjective): Feeling or showing great surprise.
  • She had an astonished look on her face.
• Astonishment (noun): Great surprise.
  • To my astonishment, he agreed immediately.

Synonyms

• Amazing: Causing great surprise or wonder.
• Astounding: Shockingly impressive or surprising.
• Staggering: So great, shocking, or surprising as to be difficult to believe.
• Stupefying: Making one unable to think or feel properly due to shock or surprise.

Antonyms

• Ordinary: With no special or distinctive features; normal.
• Expected: Regarded as likely to happen.
• Unsurprising: Not causing surprise.

Idioms and Common Phrases

• "Astonishing to behold": Used to describe something that is incredibly impressive or surprising to see.
  • The view from the summit was astonishing to behold.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm
   • such an enormous response was astonishing
   • an astounding achievement
   • the amount of money required was staggering
   • suffered a staggering defeat
   • the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying
2. surprising greatly
   • she does an amazing amount of work
   • the dog was capable of astonishing tricks

Từ đồng nghĩa

• astounding
• staggering
• stupefying
• amazing