From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Astound \As*tound"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Astounded}, [Obs.] {Astound}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Astounding}.] [See {Astound}, adjective]
No puissant stroke his senses once astound. --Fairfax.
2. To astonish; to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear.
These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Astounding \As*tound"ing\, adjective Of a nature to astound; astonishing; amazing; as, an astounding force, statement, or fact. -- {As*tound"ing*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: bewildering or striking dumb with wonder [syn: {dumbfounding}, {dumfounding}]
2: 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" [syn: {astonishing}, {staggering}, {stupefying}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "astounding": amazing, appalling, astonishing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, breathtaking, confounding, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, fell, formidable, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, macabre, mind-boggling, miraculous, morbid, overwhelming, prodigious, redoubtable, schrecklich, shocking, spectacular, staggering, startling, stunning, stupendous, surprising, terrible, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
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