Synonyms for astonishing
əˈstɒn ɪ ʃɪŋas·ton·ish·ing

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1. astonishing

   Synonyms:
   amazing, wondrous, surprising, wonderful, striking, marvelous

   Antonyms:
   foreseen, unamazed, common, astonished at nothing, ordinary, natural, usual, everyday, trite

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1. amazing, astonishingadjective

   surprising greatly

   "she does an amazing amount of work"; "the dog was capable of astonishing tricks"

   Synonyms:
   amazing, stupefying, staggering, awesome, awful, astounding, awing, awe-inspiring

   Antonyms:
   unimpressive, unsurprising

2. astonishing, astounding, staggering, stupefyingadjective

   so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm

   "such an enormous response was astonishing"; "an astounding achievement"; "the amount of money required was staggering"; "suffered a staggering defeat"; "the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying"

   Synonyms:
   dumfounding, amazing, astounding, dumbfounding, staggering, stupefying

   Antonyms:
   unimpressive, unsurprising

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1. astonishingadjective

   Synonyms:
   amazing, astounding

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1. List of paraphrases for "astonishing":

   surprising, amazing, astounding, staggering, stunning, startling, striking, incredible, shocking, appalling, unbelievable, remarkable, extraordinary, impressive, perplexing, breathtaking, uncanny

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1. David Sinclair:

   The astonishing finding is that there’s a backup copy of the software in the body that you can reset, we’re showing why that software gets corrupted and how we can reboot the system by tapping into a reset switch that restores the cell’s ability to read the genome correctly again, as if it was young.

2. The Russian President:

   This new report that President Trump openly admitted to the Russians that he 'faced great pressure' from the FBI's criminal investigation that was 'taken off' when he fired Director Comey is astonishing -- and extremely troubling.

3. Henry Adams:

   Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

4. Stephen Farnsworth:

   It’s really astonishing that a man with more baggage than Amtrak has been elected from his jail cell.

5. Lindsey Graham:

   I am going to ask the FBI director - was there a counterintelligence investigation opened up regarding the president as being a potential agent of the Russians? I find it astonishing.