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UK
/ɐstˈɒnɪʃɪŋli/
]
[ US /əˈstɑnɪʃɪŋɫi/ ]
[ US /əˈstɑnɪʃɪŋɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise
amazingly, he finished medical school in three years
How To Use astonishingly In A Sentence
- For all its moments of typical silent-movie hamminess, it remains astonishingly modern. Times, Sunday Times
- Billings was a clumsy, maladroit man, his fingers astonishingly competent with a wireless set, his other limbs ungainly and shambling. IN LOVE AND WAR
- The most desirable properties necessarily command astonishingly high prices.
- What truly caught his attention was not her astonishingly contrasting beauty, but her secretive ways.
- This singer has a penchant for scatting and surprising material, but where he has an astonishingly pure voice, hers has more feeling.
- The owner and the "surveyor" were the people responsible, and the plans, directions and details given to the workmen were astonishingly meager. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today
- The speed of her rise to fame has been astonishingly rapid.
- First of all, we have Natalie Portman's astonishingly physical and emotional tour de force, which is worthy of every plaudit and award she has and will win. Scott Mendelson: 2010 in Review: Favorite Films of the Year
- The new foliage is astonishingly delicate, as good as any maple, and everyone loves that primitive, fan-shaped leaf. Times, Sunday Times
- As they wait for assistance to have the man taken into custody, they studiously ignored taunts and provocations and remained astonishingly polite throughout.