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Definition: Astonished |
AstonishedAdjective1. 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 "astonished" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: AstonishedSynonyms: amazed (adj), astonied (adj), astounded (adj), stunned (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Expectance | Adjective: expecting; Verb: unamazed, astonished at nothing; blase; (weary); expected; Verb: foreseen; unsurprising. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Astonished |
| English words defined with "astonished": Abawed, amazed, astonied, Astonishedly, astounded ♦ Gloppen ♦ stunned. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "astonished": executive ♦ HOVEL ♦ Papyra ♦ Rope-dancers. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "astonished": Astonish, Astonishedly ♦ stupendous. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Astonished Heart (1949) | |
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 | Tramp with hat in hand standing before astonished woman, her house, and dog. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ferdinand Cortes and Hernando de Soto in the camp of the Inca at Caxamalca. The order of his court and the reverence with which his subjects approached his person, astonished the Spaniards / drawing by C. Colin. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Blaise Pascal | When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | But I live out of the world, and am often astonished at what I hear. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This madness, this terror, this falling to ruins of the highest bravery which ever astonished history, can that be without cause? |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | My servants were astonished to see me eat it bones and all, as in our country we do the leg of a lark. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect. Following is an extract from an old book entitled, The Lunarian Astonished -- Pfeiffer & Co., Boston, 1803: LUNARIAN: Then when your Congress has passed a law it goes directly to the Supreme Court in order that it may at once be known whether it is constitutional? TERRESTRIAN: O no; it does not require the approval of the Supreme Court until having perhaps been enforced for many years somebody objects to its operation against himself -- I mean his client. The President, if he approves it, begins to execute it at once. LUNARIAN: Ah, the executive power is a part of the legislative. Do your policemen also have to approve the local ordinances that they enforce? TERRESTRIAN: Not yet -- at least not in their character of constables. Generally speaking, though, all laws require the approval of those whom they are intended to restrain. LUNARIAN: I see. The death warrant is not valid until signed by the murderer. TERRESTRIAN: My friend, you put it too strongly; we are not so consistent. LUNARIAN: But this system of maintaining an expensive judicial machinery to pass upon the validity of laws only after they have long been executed, and then only when brought before the court by some private person -- does it not cause great confusion? TERRESTRIAN: It does. LUNARIAN: Why then should not your laws, previously to being executed, be validated, not by the signature of your President, but by that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? TERRESTRIAN: There is no precedent for any such course. LUNARIAN: Precedent. What is that? TERRESTRIAN: It has been defined by five hundred lawyers in three volumes each. So how can any one know? |
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| "Astonished" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 50.52% of the time. "Astonished" is used about 575 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 50.52% | 291 | 17,055 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 26.74% | 154 | 25,326 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 21.53% | 124 | 28,785 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.22% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 575 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "astonished": astonished at ♦ astonished at nothing ♦ be astonished. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "astonished": astonished-looking. | |
Ending with "astonished": half-astonished, perhaps-astonished. | |
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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 |
astonished | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "astonished"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i habitur (amazed, wonder-stricken), i çuditur (amazed, object, surprised, wonder struck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مندهش (amazed, astounding, flabbergasted, startled, surprised), مذهول (amazed, flabbergasted, stunned), مشدوه (amazed, astounded, flabbergasted, puzzled, shocked, startled, stunned, thunderstruck, wonder struck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 吃惊 (Astonish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ihmetellä (be surprised, marvel, marvel at, wonder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | étonnai, étonnés, étonnées, étonnâmes, étonnèrent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erstaunte, erstaunt (aback, amazed, amazedly, astonishes, staggered, wonderingly), überraschte (overtook, surprised). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έκπληκτοσ (surprised). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מופתע (amazed, startled, surprised, taken aback), תמ" (amazed, bewildered, surprised). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | döbbent (dumbfounded, flabbergasted, shocked, stunned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ajab (surprised), tertegun (stop suddenly), tercengang (agape, amazed, dumb founded, flabbergasted, stupefied, taken aback, wondering), kagum (amazed, wonder), cengang (amazed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | attonito, stupito (amazed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 暗然 (disappointed, discouraged), 憮然 (disappointed, discouraged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぶぜ" (disappointed, discouraged), あ"ぜ" (disappointed, discouraged, safety, security). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 경천동지하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astonisheday atônito (amazed, cheap, mazy, speechless), admirado (admired, open-eyed, pop-eyed, surprised), abismado, surpreso. (various references) uluit (amazed, astounded, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, flurried, mused, perplex, thunder-struck), uimit (dumbfounded, surprised), mirat (staring). (various references) удивлять удивленный (surprised). (various references) zapanjen (aback, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, wonder-stricken), začuđen (amazed, wonder-stricken). (various references) asombrado (amazed, flabbergasted), sorprendido (shocked, startled, surprised), estupefacto (dumbfounded, speechless, thunderstruck). (various references) häpen (amazed, flabbergasted), förvånad (amazed). (various references) ที่ประหลา"ใจ. (various references) afallamış (consternated, floored, open-eyed, taken aback). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adtoniti, adtonitis. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 4, Verse 32 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai exeplhssonto epi th didach autou oti en exousia hn o logoV autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et stupebant in doctrina eius quia in potestate erat sermo ipsius |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And hig wundredon be his lare: forþam his spæc on anwealde wæs; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thei weren astonyed in his techyng, for his word was in power. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And they were astonyed at his doctrine: for his preachige was wt power. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And they were surprised at his teaching, for his word was with authority. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 4, Verse 32 |
| Cebuano | ug nahibulong sila sa iyang pagpanudlo kay ang iyang pagpamulong inubanan man sa kagahum. |
| Chinese | 他 們 很 希 奇 他 的 教 " 、 為 他 的 話 裡 有 權 柄 。 |
| Croatian | te bijahu zaneseni njegovim naukom jer silna bijaše rijeè njegova. |
| Danish | Og de bleve slagne af Forundring over hans Lære, thi hans Tale var med Myndighed. |
| Dutch | En zij versloegen zich over Zijn leer, want Zijn woord was met macht. |
| Finnish | Ja he olivat hämmästyksissään hänen opetuksestansa, sillä hänen puheessansa oli voima. |
| French | On était frappé de sa doctrine; car il parlait avec autorité. |
| German | Und sie verwunderten sich seiner Lehre; denn seine Rede war gewaltig. |
| Haitian Creole | Yo te sezi tande sa l' t'ap moutre yo, paske li t'ap pale tankou moun ki gen dwa di sa l'ap di a. |
| Hungarian | És csodálkozának az õ tudományán, mert beszéde hatalmas vala. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka kagum melihat caranya Ia mengajar, sebab Ia berbicara dengan wibawa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka sangat heranlah mereka itu akan pengajaran-Nya itu, karena perkataan-Nya itu dengan kuasa. |
| Italian | Rimanevano colpiti dal suo insegnamento, perché parlava con autorit . |
| Manx Gaelic | As ghow ad yindys mooar jeh'n ynsaghey echey: son va e ghoo lesh pooar. |
| Maori | Na ka miharo ratou ki tana ako: i whai mana hoki tana kupu. |
| Norwegian | og de var slått av forundring over hans lære; for hans tale var med myndighet. |
| Portuguese | e maravilharam-se da sua doutrina, porque a sua palavra era com autoridade. |
| Rumanian | Ei erau uimiyi de knvqyqtura Lui, pentrucq vorbea cu putere. |
| Shuar | Yusa kakarmarin takaku asa nujai etserkamiayi. Tuma asamtai "Yusa kakarmarijiai unuitiamtsujik" tiar ti Enentáimprarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Y se asombraban de su enseñanza, porque su palabra era con autoridad. |
| Swahili | Wakastaajabia uwezo aliokuwa nao katika kufundisha. |
| Swedish | Och de häpnade över hans undervisning, ty han talade med makt och myndighet. |
| Uma | Konce-ramo tauna to mpo'epe tudui' -na, apa' mololita-i hewa tauna to mokuasa. |
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Misspellings | |
"Astonished" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asthonished, astonashed, atonished, attonished. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "astonished" (pronounced ustÄ"nisht) |
| 5 | -Ä" n i sh t | admonished. |
| 4 | -n i sh t | banished, diminished, finished, garnished, punished, refinished, replenished, semifinished, undiminished, unfinished, unpunished, unvarnished, vanished, varnished. |
| 3 | -i sh t | accomplished, anguished, blemished, brandished, demolished, distinguished, embellished, established, extinguished, flourished, impoverished, languished, lavished, nourished, perished, polished, published, reestablished, refurbished, relinquished, relished, undistinguished, unpublished, vanquished. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-i-n-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: adhesions, dishonest, hedonists, sedations, stonished. | |
-2 letters: adenosis, adhesion, adonises, anthesis, astonied, astonies, astonish, dashiest, destains, handiest, handsets, hedonist, histones, sandiest, sandshoe, sedation, shadiest, shandies, shanties, sheitans, standish, sthenias. | |
-3 letters: anthoid, ashiest, atonies, destain, detains, disseat, dissent, donates, entasis, ethions, handset, hastens, hessian, histone, hoidens, hoisted, hotness, instead, iodates, nasties, nosiest, sainted, sandhis, sestina. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-i-n-o-s-s-t" | |
+3 letters: admonishments. | |
+4 letters: dodecaphonists, methodicalness, nonestablished, outlandishness, roadworthiness. | |
+5 letters: countershadings, standoffishness, trisoctahedrons, unsophisticated. | |
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