ASTOUNDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does astounded mean? 

• ASTOUNDED (adjective)
  The adjective ASTOUNDED has 1 sense:

1. filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock

  Familiarity information: ASTOUNDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASTOUNDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock

Synonyms:

amazed; astonied; astonished; astounded; stunned

Context example:

stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses

Similar:

surprised (taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment)

 Context examples 

He had no doubt of what it would be, and he was astounded when he heard her say: It is beautiful.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But when the frames of poles were made into tepees by being covered with cloth and skins, White Fang was astounded.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We were too astounded to speak.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was astounded to see this conjunction.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I had no conception that vessels ever came so far north and was astounded at the sight.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

If his silver razor-heater had taken to evil ways he could not have been more astounded.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Maud and I were astounded.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Here you find us; and we cannot wonder that you, who are new to tumbling, should be astounded, since many great barons, earls, marshals and knights, who have wandered as far as the Holy Land, are of one mind in saying that they have never seen a more noble or gracious performance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was astounded at the suddenness of it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They were experienced publishers and no one had been more astounded than they at the success which had followed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)