What is the opposite of astounding?
What is the opposite of astounding?
Antonyms: believable, credible, unimpressive. Synonyms: dumfounding, dumbfounding, staggering, stupefying, astonishing.
What word has a more negative connotation than astounded?
Dumbfounded: “greatly astonish or amaze: they were dumbfounded at his popularity.” (New Oxford American Dictionary) Although it doesn’t necessarily suggest a negative outcome, I think it does generally carry connotations of nonplussed bemusement. As others have already mentioned, there’s also appalled and nonplussed.
What is the closest synonym for astounding?
astounding
- amazing,
- astonishing,
- blindsiding,
- dumbfounding.
- (also dumfounding),
- eye-opening,
- flabbergasting,
- jarring,
Can astounded be negative?
Astounded often denotes a positive feeling, but it CAN be negative. It is a very strong word. Probably the strongest of the three. Stunned is often used when there is a physical action that incapacitates you , but it can be mental as well.
What does the name Astounding mean?
astounding – 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”
What are antonyms and synonyms?
Synonyms are different words with the same or similar meanings. Antonyms are different words with the opposite meaning. Synonyms: cheerful and chipper, quick and fast, up and higher, smart and intelligent. Antonyms: cheerful and depressed, quick and slow, up and down, smart and dumb.
What does astounded mean?
Definition of astounded. : feeling or showing great surprise or wonder : astonished, amazed was astounded to hear the news We were too astounded to speak.
What does antonym mean?
antonym – a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; “to him the antonym of `gay’ was `depressed'”. antonym. That which is diametrically opposed to another:
