astounding

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of astound

adj

  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, Wasted in darkness down the pitchy wave, We saw the STYGIAN pool her borders lave, Fed by th’ astounding cataract on high.

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