astounded
adjective
as·tound·ed
ə-ˈstau̇n-dəd 
: feeling or showing great surprise or wonder : astonished, amazed
was astounded to hear the news
We were too astounded to speak. We could only stand there staring in amazement.—
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan DoyleExamples of astounded in a Sentence
were astounded to realize that we were holding the winning lottery ticket
the astounded look on the tourists' faces when the police ordered them to leave the country immediately
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Joseph Weizenbaum, a professor at MIT who devised the first chatbot in the 1960s, was astounded and deeply troubled by how readily people poured out their hearts to his program.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 8 July 2025
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—John McDermott, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2025
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—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Quite reasonably Trump’s critics, and surely many who are fans of Trump, are astounded by his conceit.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
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Krista Stevens, Longreads, 8 July 2025
Simpson remembers being astounded by the number of people who turned out for a Delicious Tacos reading in Los Angeles in 2022.
—John McDermott, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2025
During its own space odyssey, New Horizons has astounded stargazers, students and scholars worldwide with its technicolor panoramas of Pluto, covered in surreal ice-fields and cryo-volcanoes, and its age-old companion Charon.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Quite reasonably Trump’s critics, and surely many who are fans of Trump, are astounded by his conceit.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
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“Astounded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/astounded. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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