Antonyms for astonishing
əˈstɒn ɪ ʃɪŋas·ton·ish·ing

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1. astonishing

   Antonyms:
   foreseen, unamazed, common, astonished at nothing, ordinary, natural, usual, everyday, trite

   Synonyms:
   amazing, wondrous, surprising, wonderful, striking, marvelous

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1. amazing, astonishingadjective

   surprising greatly

   "she does an amazing amount of work"; "the dog was capable of astonishing tricks"

   Antonyms:
   unimpressive, unsurprising

   Synonyms:
   amazing, stupefying, staggering, awesome, awful, astounding, awing, awe-inspiring

2. astonishing, astounding, staggering, stupefyingadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   unimpressive, unsurprising

   Synonyms:
   dumfounding, amazing, astounding, dumbfounding, staggering, stupefying

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1. astonishingadjective

   Synonyms:
   amazing, astounding

How to use astonishing in a sentence?

1. Ted Scambos:

   Ten years ago this would have been an astonishing summer of ice melt, now it is just another season in a decade of low years.

2. Margaret Fuller:

   It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

3. Bertrand Russell:

   The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

4. Merlin Sheldrake:

   What’s astonishing is the gulf between what we expect to find and what we find when we actually look.

5. John Mortimer, The Observer (1999):

   Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.

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