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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Causing or fitted to cause astonishment; amazing; wonderful.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Causing astonishment in; causing to be astonished.
  • verb Present participle of astonish.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective surprising greatly
  • adjective so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm

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