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Definition of Astoundingly
1. Adverb. In an astounding manner; so as to astound, surprise, or amaze. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Astoundingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Astoundingly
Literary usage of Astoundingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plays of the Present by John Bouvé Clapp, Edwin Francis Edgett (1902)
"He acted with a merciless fidelity that made the man astoundingly repulsive and
odious—so much so that some critics said that ..."
2. Contemporary Portraits by Frank Harris (1920)
"... yet he spoke of his work with curious detachment, in jerked-out phrases,
astoundingly sincere in their simplicity, and astoundingly veracious as well. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1905)
"He was himself astoundingly clever and astoundingly careless. He learnt mathematics,
which could not make him exact, Latin, and English. ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1907)
"They are for ever cleaning, and it is part of the game in this odd little country
that everything is washed most astoundingly clean in water which is ..."
5. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1883)
"... became a necessity, and, if so, as a consequence the hypothesis of evolution
cannot be true. acts but that it was so astoundingly improbable that 4. ..."
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