Word Finder - astonishment

definition

The feeling or experience of being astonished; great surprise.

example

The class looked on in astonishment as their teacher proceeded to tear the pages out of the textbook.

synonyms

• amazement
• stupefaction
• wonder
• wonderment

definition

Something very surprising.

synonyms

• marvel
• stunner

definition

Loss of physical sensation; inability to move a part of the body.

synonyms

• numbness
• paralysis

definition

Loss of mental faculties, inability to think or use one's senses.

synonyms

• stupor

definition

Loss of composure or presence of mind.

synonyms

• consternation
• dismay

A look of astonishment crossed his face as he turned.

To his astonishment, the Other went.

Her astonishment, when she felt the tiny creature inside, cannot be put in a letter.

He kept looking to either side of the road for familiar faces, but only saw everywhere the unfamiliar faces of various military men of different branches of the service, who all looked with astonishment at his white hat and green tail coat.

The French followed him with astonishment in their eyes chiefly because Pierre, unlike all the other Russians who gazed at the French with fear and curiosity, paid no attention to them.

Princess Mary looked at him with astonishment.

Mr. O'Hara quickly recovered from his astonishment and came to her aid.

He was convicted and received a severe sentence, with repeated floggings, the execution of which was expected to kill him, and which was rigorously carried out; but to the astonishment of all he survived.

That a work of such immense reading, consisting in great part of quotation, should have been written in little more than a year was a source of astonishment to his biographers.

Prince Andrew looked at the laughing Speranski with astonishment, regret, and disillusionment.

The sun had sunk half below the horizon and an evening frost was starring the puddles near the ferry, but Pierre and Andrew, to the astonishment of the footmen, coachmen, and ferrymen, still stood on the raft and talked.

They looked at one another in astonishment.

Can you imagine the astonishment when the messenger returned alone?

Even Tinker had uttered a small cry of astonishment.

Natasha looked at Sonya with astonishment.

The decisive movement was a passage in strength near Fuenterrabia, to the astonishment of Passage of the the enemy, who in view of the width of the river Bidassoa, and the shifting sands, had thought the crossing October 7, impossible at that point.

One is lost in astonishment at the nervous yet perfectly regulated force and the unerring fidelity of every trace of the chisel.

How is Babylon become an astonishment among y e nations!

Jim tells Meg that he has resigned, to her great astonishment.

I certainly experienced no fear, only complete astonishment ' .

To everyone's astonishment, Snow White opened her eyes.

To the astonishment of everybody, Lord Cardigan escaped from a capital charge of felony because the full name of his antagonist (Harvey Garnett Phipps Tuckett) was not legally proved.

But the imperiousness showed itself in the more effectual form of action; in his sudden resolves, his invincible insistence, his recklessness of consequences to himself and his friends, his habitual assumption that the civilized world and all its units must agree with him, his indignant astonishment at the bare thought of dissent or resistance, his incapacity to believe that an overruling Providence would permit him to be frustrated or defeated.

It was the picture of a sheep, and it was drawn so well that the stranger was filled with astonishment.

Pierre looked at Rostopchin with naive astonishment, not understanding why he should be disturbed by the bad composition of the Note.

You can yourself imagine the effect this news has had on me, and your silence increases my astonishment.

He gazed in stupefied astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper.

As a result he was stupefied with astonishment for the first and probably the only time in his life.

Aristoxenus, at the beginning of the second book of the Harmonics,, gives a graphic account of the astonishment caused by these lectures, of Plato, and of their effect on the lectures of Aristotle.

His excellent health and activity in succeeding years struck every one with astonishment.

Her every feature expressed astonishment, for she had drawn from the pyramid the word which was the key to her manuscript.

The new King's coarse and often vulgar sense of humor caused much astonishment at the refined English court.

All the tricks have been especially devised to be original Mind-Blowing effects, creating maximum astonishment.

There was a tide so strongly in his favor as to excite the astonishment of all observers.

However, to my utter astonishment, I am also asked to comment on the Holocaust!

What the Judges did, however, and to general astonishment, was to decide the case on their own motion.

To the total astonishment of the Belgians, Lumumba takes the floor in an unscheduled address that shatters the paternalistic charade in progress.

The eloquence of Cleon frustrated the peace party's desire to accept these terms, and ultimately to the astonishment of the Greek world the Spartan hoplites to the number of 292 surrendered unconditionally (see Cleon).

One can imagine the interest and astonishment with which the great Greek would have been filled had some unduly precocious disciple shown to him the red-blood-system of the marine terrestrial Annelids; the red blood of Planorbis, of Apus cancriformis, and of the Mediterranean razor shell, Solen legumen.

Accordingly Cromwell the same day refused the crown definitely, greatly to the astonishment both of his followers and his enemies, who considered his decision a fatal neglect of an opportunity of commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him."

I saw an old man the other day, to my astonishment, making the holes with a hoe for the seventieth time at least, and not for himself to lie down in!

I 'm quite speechless with astonishment (and no small amount of delight).

Squelching back, they meet Foley, who pretends not to know Peter, much to Peter 's astonishment.

The rudiments of Latin he obtained at the grammar school of Montrose, after leaving which he learned Greek for two years under Pierre de Marsilliers, a Frenchman whom John Erskine of Dun had induced to settle at Montrose; and such was Melville's proficiency that on going to the university of St Andrews he excited the astonishment of the professors by using the Greek text of Aristotle, which no one else there understood.

According to the Memoirs of Sir James Melville, both Lord Herries and himself resolved to appeal to the queen in terms of bold and earnest remonstrance against so desperate and scandalous a design; Herries, having been met with assurances of its unreality and professions of astonishment at the suggestion, instantly fled from court; Melville, evading the danger of a merely personal protest without backers to support him, laid before Mary a letter from a loyal Scot long resident in England, which urged upon her consideration and her conscience the danger and disgrace of such a project yet more freely than Herries had ventured to do by word of mouth; but the sole result was that it needed all the queen's courage and resolution to rescue him from the violence of the man for whom, she was reported to have said, she cared not if she lost France, England and her own country, and would go with him to the world's end in a white petticoat before she would leave him.

Astonishment has been frequently expressed at the powerful activities of bacteria - their rapid growth and dissemination, of the extensive and profound decompositions and Activity bacteria.

During this march he displayed an amount of engineering skill in the construction of roads, of military talent and fertility of resource, that excited the admiration and astonishment of his enemies.

To the astonishment of every one, Bretschneider announced in the preface to the second edition of his Dogmatik in 1822, that he had never doubted the authenticity of the gospel, and had published his Probabilia only to draw attention to the subject, and to call forth a more complete defence of its genuineness.

Tradition has dramatized their first meeting into the story given by Cresacre More' - that the two happened to sit opposite each other at the lord mayor's table, that they got into an argument during dinner, and that, in mutual astonishment at each other's wit and readiness, Erasmus exclaimed, " Aut tu es Morus, aut nullus," and the other replied, " Aut tu es Erasmus, aut diabolus !

To the astonishment of his friends, on the 1st of April he fled from Paris before it could be executed, going first to Brussels and then to London.