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| Main Entry: | astonishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | surprising |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astounding, breathtaking, extraordinary, impressive, marvelous, miraculous, spectacular, staggering, startling, striking, stunning, stupendous, wonderful, wondrous, bewildering, stupefying |
| Antonyms: | boring, dull, expected |
| Main Entry: | astonish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surprise |
| Synonyms: | amaze, astound, bewilder, blow away, blow one's mind, boggle, bowl over*, confound, daze, dumbfound, flabbergast, floor*, knock over*, overwhelm, put one away, shock, spring on, stagger, startle, stun, stupefy, take aback, throw a curve |
| Antonyms: | bore, calm, expect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | astounding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazing |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, breathtaking, eye-popping*, mind-blowing*, mind-boggling*, overwhelming, shocking, startling, surprising, wondrous, confounding, stupefying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | awesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazing |
| Synonyms: | alarming, astonishing, awe-inspiring, awful, beautiful, breathtaking, dreadful, exalted, fearful, formidable, frantic, frightening, grand, hairy*, horrible, imposing, impressive, intimidating, magnificent, majestic, mean, mind-blowing*, moving, nervous, overwhelming, shocking, striking, stunning, terrible, terrifying, wonderful, wondrous, daunting, fearsome, horrifying, real gone, something else, stupefying, zero cool |
| Antonyms: | unamazing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | breathtaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, awesome |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astonishing, awe-inspiring, exciting, hair-raising, impressive, magnificent, moving, overwhelming, spine-tingling, stunning, thrilling, heart-stirring, heart-stopping |
| Antonyms: | disgusting, ugly |
| Main Entry: | exciting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inspiring, exhilarating |
| Synonyms: | appealing, astonishing, bracing, breathtaking, dangerous, dramatic, eye-popping*, far-out*, fine, flashy, groovy*, hair-raising*, heady*, hectic, impressive, interesting, intoxicating, intriguing, lively, melodramatic, mind-blowing, moving, neat, overpowering, overwhelming, provocative, racy, rousing, sensational, showy, spine-tingling*, stimulating, stirring, thrilling, wild, agitative, animating, arousing, arresting, commoving, electrifying, exhilarant, impelling, rip-roaring, titillating, zestful |
| Antonyms: | boring, moderate, unenthusiastic, unexciting, unenthused, uninspiring, unpromising, unstimulating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fabulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazing, wonderful |
| Synonyms: | 10, aces*, astonishing, astounding, awesome, best, breathtaking, cool*, extravagant, fantastic, fictitious, first-class, groovy*, immense, inconceivable, incredible, legendary, marvelous, mind-blowing*, outrageous, peachy*, phenomenal, prodigious, remarkable, spectacular, striking, stupendous, super, superb, terrific, unbelievable, unreal, wicked*, A-1*, A-OK, doozie, fab, greatest, out-of-sight, out-of-this-world, primo, rad, top drawer, tops, turn-on |
| Antonyms: | common, normal, ordinary, simple |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mind-blowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazing, intense |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, mind-boggling, overwhelming, psychedelic, staggering, stunning, wonderful, eye-opening, hallucinatory, mind-altering |
| Main Entry: | mind-boggling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overwhelming |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astonishing, breathtaking, mind-blowing, spectacular, staggering, startling, stunning, stupendous, surprising, wonderful, eye-opening |
| Main Entry: | miraculous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | surprisingly wonderful |
| Synonyms: | amazing, anomalous, astonishing, astounding, awesome, extraordinary, fabulous, freakish, heavy, incredible, inexplicable, magical, marvelous, monstrous, phenomenal, preternatural, prodigious, spectacular, staggering, strange, stupendous, superhuman, superior, supernatural, unaccountable, unbelievable, unearthly, unimaginable, unreal, wondrous, numinous, stupefying, supermundane, supranatural, thaumaturgic, the utmost, wonderworking |
| Antonyms: | normal, usual |
| Main Entry: | spectacular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wonderful, impressive |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astonishing, astounding, breathtaking, daring, dazzling, dramatic, eye-catching, fabulous, fantastic, grand, histrionic, magnificent, marked, marvelous, miraculous, prodigious, remarkable, sensational, splendid, staggering, striking, stunning, stupendous, theatrical, thrilling, wondrous, razzle-dazzle |
| Antonyms: | normal, ordinary, regular, usual, unspectacular |
| Main Entry: | staggering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overwhelming |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astonishing, astounding, distressing, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, shocking, stunning |
| Main Entry: | striking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extraordinary; beautiful |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, attractive, bizarre, charming, cogent, commanding, compelling, conspicuous, dazzling, distinguished, dynamite, eye-catching, fascinating, forceful, forcible, handsome, impressive, jazzy*, lofty, marked, memorable, noteworthy, noticeable, out of the ordinary*, outstanding, powerful, prominent, remarkable, salient, showy, signal, singular, staggering, startling, stunning, surprising, telling, unusual, wonderful, wondrous, arresting, arrestive, confounding, electrifying |
| Antonyms: | homely, ugly, horrifying, unimpressive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stupendous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wonderful, amazing |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, astounding, breathtaking, colossal, dynamite, enormous, fabulous, fantastic, fat*, gigantic, great, huge, marvelous, mind-blowing*, mind-boggling*, miraculous, monster, monumental, overwhelming, phenomenal, prodigious, radical*, spectacular, staggering, stunning, super, superb, surprising, terrific, too much*, tremendous, unreal*, utmost*, vast, wondrous, fab, smashing, titantic |
| Antonyms: | terrible, unimportant, unimpressive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | surprising |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unexpected |
| Synonyms: | accidental, amazing, astonishing, chance, extraordinary, fortuitous, impulsive, out of the blue*, remarkable, shocking, startling, stunning, sudden, unforeseen, unpredictable, wonderful, electrifying, from left field, unanticipated, unpredicted, without warning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unaccountable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not explainable; mysterious |
| Synonyms: | arcane, astonishing, baffling, extraordinary, impenetrable, incomprehensible, inexplicable, inscrutable, mystic, odd, peculiar, puzzling, strange, uncommon, unfathomable, unheard-of, unintelligible, unusual, unexplainable, unknowable, unwonted |
| Antonyms: | accountable, comprehensible, explainable, responsible |
| Main Entry: | unbelievable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beyond the imagination |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, beyond belief, cockamamie, cockeyed*, doubtful, dubious, far-fetched, fishy*, flaky*, flimsy*, for the birds, full of holes, harebrained*, implausible, impossible, improbable, incogitable, inconceivable, incredible, kooky, lamebrained, open to doubt, outlandish, past belief, phony, preposterous, questionable, reaching, scatterbrained*, screwy*, staggering, suspect, thick*, thin*, too much*, unconvincing, unimaginable, unsubstantial, unthinkable, weak, won't hold water, won't wash |
| Antonyms: | believable, credible, plausible, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncanny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very strange, unusual |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, astounding, creepy, devilish, eerie, exceptional, extraordinary, fantastic, ghostly, ghoulish, incredible, inspired, magical, miraculous, mysterious, preternatural, prodigious, queer, remarkable, scary, secret, singular, spooky, superhuman, supernatural, unearthly, unheard-of, unnatural, weird, inexplainable, mystifying, supernormal, supranormal |
| Antonyms: | common, earthly, natural, usual |
| Main Entry: | unexpected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | surprising |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, accidental, amazing, astonishing, chance, fortuitous, impetuous, impulsive, instantaneous, out of the blue*, payback, prodigious, staggering, startling, stunning, sudden, swift, unforeseen, unheralded, unpredictable, wonderful, electrifying, eye-opening, from left field, not bargained for, not in the cards, unanticipated, unlooked-for, unpredicted |
| Antonyms: | expected |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unusual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | different |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, amazing, astonishing, atypical, awe-inspiring, awesome, bizarre, conspicuous, curious, distinguished, eminent, exceptional, extraordinary, far-out*, inconceivable, incredible, memorable, noteworthy, odd, out of the ordinary*, outstanding, phenomenal, prodigious, prominent, queer, rare, refreshing, remarkable, significant, singular, special, strange, surprising, uncommon, unconventional, unexpected, unfamiliar, unique, unparalleled, weird*, something else, unwonted |
| Antonyms: | common, familiar, normal, regular, standard, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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