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Definition: Astounded |
AstoundedAdjective1. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock; "an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation"; "I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral"; "astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing"; "stood in stunned silence"; "stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "astounded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: AstoundedSynonyms: amazed (adj), astonied (adj), astonished (adj), stunned (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Astounded |
| English words defined with "astounded": gobsmacked. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "astounded": Great Scott ♦ Opal of Alphonso XII ♦ Single-Speech Hamilton. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "astounded": Astound. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Not astounded by the sun or the moon (Planets Of The Universe; performing artist: Stevie Nicks; writing credit: Stevie Nicks) | |
Clever | I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. (references; author: Woody Allen) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This wonderful cavalry astounded Clinton, who had seen Talavera and Badajos. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Even as we meet, the rest of the world is astounded by the pundits and finger pointers who are so down on us as a nation. |
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| "Astounded" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 44.44% of the time. "Astounded" is used about 135 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 44.44% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 35.56% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 19.26% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.74% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 135 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "astounded": be astounded. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
astounded | 5 |
astounded lyrics tantric | 4 |
astounded lyrics | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "astounded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مشدوه (amazed, astonished, flabbergasted, puzzled, shocked, startled, stunned, thunderstruck, wonder struck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 震惊 (Astound, Astounding, Egregious, stun, stunned, stunning), 訝 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ällistynyt (thunderstruck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | verblüffte (amazed, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, graveled, nonplussed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gemap (dumbfounded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | essere trasecolato (be astounded), essere sbalordito (be astonished, be astounded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astoundeday uluit (amazed, astonished, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, flurried, mused, perplex, thunder-struck), stupefiat (dumbfounded, stupefied), consternat (amazed, dismayed, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, flummoxed, horrified), buimac (amazed, dismayed, dizzy, dumb, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, flummoxed, horrified), înmãrmurit (dumbfounded, mused). (various references) поражать проаженный. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"Astounded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astoundde, astoundedly, astoundind. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "astounded" (pronounced ustou"ndud) |
| 5 | -ou" n d u d | abounded, bounded, compounded, confounded, expounded, founded, grounded, hounded, impounded, pounded, propounded, rebounded, rounded, sounded, surrounded, unbounded, unfounded. |
| 4 | -n d u d | amended, appended, apprehended, ascended, attended, backhanded, banded, befriended, bended, blended, blinded, bonded, branded, candid, commanded, commended, comprehended, contended, corresponded, defended, demanded, depended, descended, disbanded, distended, dumbfounded, ended, evenhanded, expanded, expended, extended, fended, funded, handed, intended, landed, masterminded, mended, minded, offended, overextended, overfunded, pretended, recommended, refunded, remanded, reminded, reprimanded, rescinded, responded, sanded, seconded, splendid, stranded, suspended, tended, transcended, trended, unamended, unattended, unbranded, underfunded, underhanded, unfunded, unintended, winded, wounded. |
| 3 | -d u d | abided, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, applauded, avoided, awarded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, beheaded, bladed, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, braided, breaded, broadsided, brooded, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, conceded, concluded, confided, corded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defrauded, degraded, deluded, denuded, derided, discarded, disregarded, dissuaded, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, eluded, embedded, encoded, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, exceeded, excluded, exploded, extruded, exuded, faded, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, guarded, guided, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, included, interceded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, melded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, outmoded, overcrowded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, prided, proceeded, prodded, provided, raided, railroaded, receded, recorded, redheaded, regarded, reloaded, remolded, resided, retarded, rewarded, safeguarded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, spearheaded, speeded, stampeded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, threaded, traded, unaided, undecided, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, wooded, worded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: stounded. | |
-2 letters: astound, daunted, donated, donates, duodena, outadds, snouted, sounded, soutane, undated, unsated. | |
-3 letters: anodes, atoned, atones, autoed, dadoes, daunts, dauted, dedans, desand, doated, donate, donuts, doused, dunted, dusted, nudest, oddest, ousted, outadd, sadden, sanded, sauted, sodden, soudan, staned, stoned, stound, sudden, sundae, toused, undead, undoes, unseat. | |
-4 letters: adust, aeons, anode, anted, antes, atone. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-n-o-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: denudations. | |
+3 letters: cotransduced, dreadnoughts, outdatedness, outdistanced, subordinated. | |
+4 letters: demodulations, superaddition, undissociated. | |
+5 letters: counterdemands, gastroduodenal, outdatednesses, superadditions, unconsolidated, undomesticated. | |
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