astounded
adj1
Surprised, amazed, astonished or bewildered.
- […] now they lye Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire, As we erewhile, astounded and amaz’d, No wonder, fall’n such a pernicious highth.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 279-282:
- […] wrapt in Suspense And Fear I stood, yet knew not what I fear’d; When straight to my appall’d, astounded Sense A Man of noble Port and Mien appear’d.1774, Thomas Hull, Richard Plantagenet: A Legendary Tale, London: J. Bell, page 13:
2 more examples
- 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Spectacles” in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, New York: W.J. Widdleton, Volume 2, p. 327, Had a thunderbolt fallen at my feet I could not have been more thoroughly astounded […]
- The housewife was to take a sip of the real juice, watch the interviewer mix the Instant right before her astounded eyes, and then try the result, impressed, possibly, by its quickness and ease […]1969, Margaret Atwood, chapter 19, in The Edible Woman, New York: Popular Library, published 1976, page 168:
- Derived terms
- astoundedly, astoundedness, unastounded