Word Meanings - ASTONISHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say. Holland. 2. Dismay; consternation. Spenser. 3. The overpowering emotion excited

Additional info about word: ASTONISHMENT

1. The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say. Holland. 2. Dismay; consternation. Spenser. 3. The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement. Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton. 4. The object causing such an emotion. Thou shalt become an astonishment. Deut. xxviii. 37. Syn. -- Amazement; wonder; surprise.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASTONISHMENT)

• Amazement
• astonishment
• awe
• wonder
• bewilderment
• surprise
• stupefication
• marvel
• Consternation
• astounding
• horror
• terror
• dismay
• Marvel
• Wonder
• prodigy
• admiration
• portent
• miracle
• amazement
• phenomenon
• sign

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ASTONISHMENT)

• Encourage
• rally
• inspirit
• assure
• allure

Related words: (words related to ASTONISHMENT)

• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• WONDERSTRUCK
  Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• WONDER
  Etym: 1. To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel. I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals. Swift. We cease to wonder at what we understand. Johnson.
• WONDERFUL
  Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n.
• MARVELOUS
  1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23. 2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or superna The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially
• TERRORIZE
  To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
• SURPRISE
  1. The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise. 2. The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion
• RALLY
  To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• WONDERLAND
  A land full of wonders, or marvels. M. Arnold.
• WONDERWORK
  A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle. Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand. Byron.
• ASSUREDLY
  Certainly; indubitably. "The siege assuredly I'll raise." Shak.
• HORROR
  horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be 1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. Chapman. 2. A shaking, shivering, or shuddering,
• WONDERLY
  Wonderfully; wondrously. Chaucer.
• DISMAY
  1. Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation. I . . . can not think of such a battle without dismay. Macaulay. Thou with a tiger spring dost leap upon thy prey, And tear
• ENCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity. All generous encouragement of arts. Otway. 2. That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward,
• ASTOUNDING
  Of a nature to astound; astonishing; amazing; as, an astounding force, statement, or fact. -- As*tound"ing*ly, adv.
• WONDERINGLY
  In a wondering manner.
• ALLUREMENT
  1. The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton. 2. That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• UNASSURED
  1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• ORALLY
  1. In an oral manner. Tillotson. 2. By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. Usher.
• MARVEL
  wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder 1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. I will do marvels such as have not been done. Ex. xxxiv. 10. Nature's sweet marvel undefiled. Emerson. 2. Wonder. "Use lessens
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• LITERALLY
  1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
• CHORALLY
  In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.
• SCRIPTURALLY
  In a scriptural manner.
• DEXTRALLY
  (adv. Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
• NEUTRALLY
  In a neutral manner; without taking part with either side; indifferently.