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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock;
- Example: "an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation"
- Example: "I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral"
- Example: "astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing"
- Example: "stood in stunned silence"
- Example: "stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses"
[syn: amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Astonied \As*ton"ied\, p. p. Stunned; astonished. See Astony. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] And I astonied fell and could not pray. --Mrs. Browning. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Astony \As*ton"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Astonied; p. pr. & vb. n. Astonying. See Astone.] To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] The captain of the Helots . . . strake Palladius upon the side of his head, that he reeled astonied. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] This sodeyn cas this man astonied so, That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

astonied adj 1: filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock; "an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation"; "I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral"; "astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing"; "stood in stunned silence"; "stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses" [syn: amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned]