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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Causing or fitted to cause surprise or wonder; causing amazement; highly astonishing.

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

  • adjective Of a nature to astound; astonishing; amazing.

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

  • verb Present participle of astound.
  • adjective That astounds or astound.

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

  • adjective so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm
  • adjective bewildering or striking dumb with wonder

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