ADJECTIVE
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filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral
an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation
stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses
astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing
stood in stunned silence
How To Use astonied In A Sentence
- Bartolo; he is literally "astonied," and Figaro makes him the victim of several laughable pranks before he recovers his wits. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
- The person opens this Dekesasi when bedspread astonied, immediately calls host the bedroom.
- They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
- This thing being put in execution (according to his commandement) the Britains were not a little astonied at the strange sight of those gallies, for that they were driuen with ores, which earst they had not séene, and shrewdlie were they galled also with the artillerie which the Romans discharged vpon them, so that they began to shrinke and Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8)
- That they may want bread and water and be astonied and consume away for their iniquity.
- Thirdly, in hearing every man apart, one may examine, when there is need, the truth or probability of his reasons, and of the grounds of the advice he gives, by frequent interruptions and objections; which cannot be done in an assembly, where in every difficult question a man is rather astonied and dazzled with the variety of discourse upon it, than informed of the course he ought to take. Leviathan
- The stony or "astonied" appearance of these figures is a resonant emblematic image of the fact that they are not life but art. Dialogic Text
- As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
- Which when I saw I was greatly astonied: and although I was inchanted by no kind of charme, yet I thought that I seemed not to have the likenesse of Lucius, for so was I banished from my sences, amazed in madnesse, and so I dreamed waking, that I felt myne eyes, whether I were asleepe or no. The Golden Asse
- 'If a man slayeth himself, he shall not be chanted over, nor shall a mass be said for him, unless he were greatly astonied, that is, to wit, out of his mind' ... Yama: the pit
