ASTONISHINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does astonishingly mean? 

• ASTONISHINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb ASTONISHINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise

  Familiarity information: ASTONISHINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASTONISHINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise

Synonyms:

amazingly; astonishingly; surprisingly

Context example:

amazingly, he finished medical school in three years

Pertainym:

astonishing (surprising greatly)

 Context examples 

“Was not it astonishingly like? She could really almost fancy herself at Maple Grove.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Yes,” said I, delighted; “he knows everything. He is astonishingly clever.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This matter-eating beast is 800 million times the mass of our Sun, which is astonishingly large for its young age.

(Most Distant Black Hole, NASA)

Astonishingly, three-toed sloths, which are more specialized to their environment, expend as little as 460 kilojoules of energy a day, the equivalent of burning a mere 110 calories — roughly the same number of calories in a baked potato.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)

A young doctor, named Verner, had purchased my small Kensington practice, and given with astonishingly little demur the highest price that I ventured to ask—an incident which only explained itself some years later, when I found that Verner was a distant relation of Holmes, and that it was my friend who had really found the money.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not considering in how different a circle she had been just seeing him, nor how much might be owing to contrast, she was quite persuaded of his being astonishingly more gentle and regardful of others than formerly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They found that the amount of rain matches remarkably well with the astonishingly high values derived more than three decades earlier by Connerney and colleagues, with one region in the south receiving most of it.

(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)