different between amazed vs astounding

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??me?zd/

Adjective

amazed (comparative more amazed, superlative most amazed)

1. Astonished or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised (often with ensuing adpositions e.g. at, with, or by).
   • 1590s, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream: III, ii

     I am amazed at your passionate words

   • 1610s, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline: IV, iii

     I am amazed with matter

   • 1917, Frederic Harrison, The Mill on the Floss. Vol. IX. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

     we are amazed by forked flashes of wisdom

   • And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:astonished

Translations

Verb

amazed

1. simple past tense and past participle of amaze

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “amazed”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?nd??

Verb

astounding

1. present participle of astound

Adjective

astounding (comparative more astounding, superlative most astounding)

1. That astounds or astound.

   astounding success; an astounding spectacle

   • 1785, Henry Boyd (translator), A Translation of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri, in English Verse, Dublin, Volume 1, Canto 7, Stanza 18, p. 285,^[1]

     Wasted in darkness down the pitchy wave,

     We saw the STYGIAN pool her borders lave,

     Fed by th’ astounding cataract on high.

Derived terms

• astoundingly
• astoundingness

Synonyms

• amazing, extraordinary, fantastic, incredible, marvelous, miraculous, phenomenal, remarkable, unbelievable

• See Thesaurus:surprising

Translations