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# astounding

«astounding» in Mova's school dictionary: **Amazing and very surprising, hard to believe** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (no change in form)

### meaning for a pupil

Amazing and very surprising, hard to believe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astounding/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales and in talk, a wonder, a trick or a talent that goes beyond what people expect

### examples

- She showed astounding skill with the sword. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astounding/#x1)
- It is an astounding thing to tell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astounding/#x2)
- The dragon's roar was astounding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astounding/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «astounding» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astounding/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.