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astonishing

/əˈstɑnɪʃɪŋ/ adjective B2
  1. Causing astonishment. · astonishing display· astonishing performance
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Spencer had said; neither had the child tumbled out of the buggy nor had Matthew done anything astonishing.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 23 · C1
“How very astonishing!” cried he at length.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 165 · C1
Dantès possessed a prodigious memory, combined with an astonishing quickness and readiness of conception; the mathematical turn of his mind rendered him apt at all kinds of calculation, while his naturally poetical feelings threw a light and pleasing veil over the dry reality of arithmetical computation, or the rigid severity of geometry.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 172 · C1
But I have seen things so extraordinary, that what you tell me seems less astonishing than it otherwise might.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 309 · C1

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