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Definition: Astounding |
AstoundingAdjective1. Bewildering or striking dumb with wonder. 2. So surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm; "such an enormous response was astonishing"; "an astounding achievement"; "the amount of money required was staggering"; "suffered a staggering defeat"; "the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "astounding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The long-established magazine Astounding Stories (later Astounding Science Fiction, currently published as Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact) is often considered the forum where modern science fiction was created, and at various times in its history has been the premier venue for written science fiction.When editor John W. Campbell took over in 1938, he brought to the retitled Astounding Science Fiction an unprecedented insistence on placing equal emphasis on both words of "science fiction." No longer satisfied with gadgetry and action alone, Campbell demanded that his writers think out how science and technology might really develop in the future -- and, most important, how those changes would affect the lives of human beings.
The new sophistication soon made Astounding the undisputed leader in the field. Campbell later began to think the old title was too "sensational" or "juvenile" to reflect what the magazine was actually doing, so he initially de-emphasized the word "Astounding" by having it printed in narrow script above the bold words "SCIENCE FICTION", and later renamed the magazine to Analog in 1960. Over the course of a year the title logo was changed; the large initial "A" stayed the same while the letters "stounding" were faded down and the letters "nalog" faded up on top of them. Bibliographers often abbreviate the magazine as "ASF", which can of course stand for either title.
Due to the economics of the magazine publishing industry (i. e. not much money in the budget), Analog frequently prints material from previously unknown authors, and has launched the careers of popular contributors within the genre (e. g. Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game in the 1970s under Ben Bova. ).
Editors:
The magazine has a Web site at http://www.analogsf.com
- Harry Bates, 1930-1933
- F. Orlin Tremaine, 1933-1937
- John W. Campbell, 1937-1971
- Ben Bova, 1971-1978
- Stanley Schmidt, 1978 to present
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Astounding Magazine."
Synonyms: AstoundingSynonyms: astonishing (adj), dumbfounding (adj), dumfounding (adj), staggering (adj), stupefying (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Astounding |
| English words defined with "astounding": astonishing ♦ corker ♦ staggering, stupefying. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "astounding": Calculators ♦ Devil's Luck ♦ Relics. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We've made living biological attractions so astounding that they'll capture the imagination of the entire planet (Jurassic Park; writing credit: Michael Crichton) The sort of people to whom nothing extraordinary ever happened -- and not the kind of people to be the center of one of the most astounding incidents in the history of mankind (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman) Like Captain Idiot in Astounding Science comics (The Manchurian Candidate; writing credit: George Axelrod) It's astounding, time is fleeting, madness takes its toll (The Rocky Horror Picture Show; writing credit: Richard O'Brien; Jim Sharman) | |
Lyrics | The magnificent movie astounding (I Wanna Rock; performing artist: Prince) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Astounding She-Monster (1957) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | One of Thurston's astounding mysteries. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Wind Turbine" by Caron Wiedrick Commentary: "Wind turbines are becoming a greater source for our energy and one I think that will be looked into more after the blackout that effected NE US and Ontario . Magnificient size as seen by the people at its base (this is a small one..) And the sound is asto" |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. |
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Business | Seeing that governmental and privately sponsored pilot programs are already producing astounding results, it is widely believed that Argentina is an ideal country for renewable energy investments. (references) | |
It may seem astounding to a Westerner’s concept of equal opportunity, but unprotected by law and yet unchallenged, social acceptance prevails and such instances are culturally tolerated in Korean companies. (references) | ||
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. |
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| "Astounding" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 48.72% of the time. "Astounding" is used about 78 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 48.72% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 47.44% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.56% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.28% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 78 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
astounding science fiction | 5 |
astounding b monster | 5 |
astounding secret | 4 |
astounding | 4 |
astounding she monster | 2 |
ancient astounding look ohio | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "astounding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mahnitës (amazing, arresting, astonishing, enchanting, marvellous, marvelous), befasues (breathtaking, startling). (various references) | |
Arabic | مندهش (amazed, astonished, flabbergasted, startled, surprised), مذهل (amazing, astonishing, baffling, bewildering, confusing, dumbfounding, prodigious, spectacular, staggering, startling, stunning, stupendous), مدهش (agape, amazing, astonishing, awesome, baffling, dandy, dumbfounding, marvellous, marvelous, out of this world, phenomenal, prodigious, ripping, staggering, startling, striking, stunning, surprising, topping, trembling, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), صاعق (staggering, stony, terrible). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | удивителен (amazing, astonishing, dizzy, exclamatory, extraordinary, fantastic, fantastical, marvellous, marvelous, prodigious, remarkable, striking, stupendous, surprising, wonderful), поразителен (amazing, electric, overwhelming, snorting, spanking, striking, super). (various references) | |
Chinese | 震惊 (Astound, Astounded, Egregious, stun, stunned, stunning). (various references) | |
Czech | zarážející, ohromený (flabbergasted, thunderstruck). (various references) | |
Finnish | hämmästyttävä (amazing, surprising). (various references) | |
French | ahurissant (astonishing), stupéfiant (astonishing), étonnant (astonishing). (various references) | |
German | verblüffend (amazing, bewildering, flabbergast, flabbergasting, graveling, intriguing, nonplussing, perplexing, speaking, striking, stupefying). (various references) | |
Greek | καταπληκτικόσ (amazing, prodigious, startling, striking, stunning, stupendous, tremendous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפתיע (amazing, astonishing, surprising, unexpected), מדהים (appalling, overwhelming, staggering, stunning, stupendous), פלאי (amazing, miraculous, wonderful). (various references) | |
Hungarian | meglepő (dumfounding, earful, mind-bending, startler, startling, stunning, surprising), meghökkentő (dumbfounding, dumfounding, flabbergasting). (various references) | |
Italian | sbalorditivo (absurd, amazing, bewildering, incredible). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 驚天動地 (amazing, startling, world-shaking), 突拍子も無い (crazy, exorbitant, tremendous), 突拍子もない (crazy, exorbitant, tremendous). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きょうてんどうち (amazing, startling, world-shaking), とっぴょうしもない (crazy, exorbitant, tremendous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | astoundingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aterrador (startling), assustador (fearful, fearsome, frightener, frightful, scary, startling), assombroso (amazing, astonishing, stunning, stupendous, surprising, wondrous), que confunde, espantoso (appaling, appalling, astonishing, colossal, dreadful, fearsome, frightful, phenomenal, surprising, terrible, terrific, unbelievable, wonderful, wondrous). (various references) | |
Romanian | ameţitor (deafening, dizzily, dizzy, giddy, intoxicating, potent, sensuous, staggering, stunning, vertiginous), uluitor (amazing, intriguing, mind-boggling, stunning). (various references) | |
Russian | поразительный (amazing, breathtaking, breath-taking, earth-shattering, startling, striking, surprising). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaprepašćujući (astonishing), zapanjujući (amazing, stupefying). (various references) | |
Spanish | asombroso (amazing, appaling, appalling, astonishing, breathtaking, staggering, startling, stupendous, surprising). (various references) | |
Swedish | förvånande (amazing, astonishing, surprising, surprisingly). (various references) | |
Thai | น่าประหลาดใจ. (various references) | |
Turkish | hayret verici (amazing, astonishing, bewildering, marvellous, marvelous, stunning, stupendous, surprising), şaşırtıcı (amazing, astonishing, baffling, bewildering, colossal, confused, confusing, dazzling, incredible, intriguing, mind-bending, perplexing, puzzling, rum, spectacular, staggering, startling, striking, surprising, twisty), şaşılacak (amazing, astonishing, prodigious, wonderful, wondrous). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уражаючий (astonishing), приголомшливий (appalling, fabulous, mindbending, overpowering, ripping, shocking, staggering, startling, stunning, way out), дивний (amazing, astonishing, bizarre, capricious, curious, freakish, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, original, out of the way, outlandish, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, strange, unaccountable, weird, wonderful, wondrous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | làm sửng sốt (amazing, startling), làm kinh ngạc (amazing, dazzling, surprising), làm kinh hoàng làm sững sờ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | stupendum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "astounding": astoundingly. (additional references) | |
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"Astounding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asounding, astaunding, astoundin, astoundind. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "astounding" (pronounced ustou"nding) |
| 5 | -ou" n d i ng | abounding, bounding, compounding, confounding, expounding, founding, grounding, hounding, pounding, rebounding, resounding, rounding, sounding, surrounding. |
| 4 | -n d i ng | apprehending, amending, ascending, attending, banding, bending, binding, blending, blinding, bonding, branding, commanding, commending, comprehending, condescending, contending, corresponding, defending, defunding, demanding, depending, descending, disbanding, ending, expanding, expending, extending, fending, finding, freestanding, funding, grandstanding, grinding, handing, impending, intending, landing, lending, longstanding, masterminding, mending, minding, misspending, misunderstanding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, offending, outspending, outstanding, overextending, overfunding, overspending, pending, portending, pretending, recommending, refunding, relending, reminding, rending, rescinding, responding, sanding, sending, spellbinding, spending, standing, stranding, suspending, tending, transcending, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unwinding, upstanding, vending, wending, winding, withstanding, wounding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, acceding, according, abiding, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bidding, biding, bleeding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, braiding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, conceding, concluding, confiding, cording, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defrauding, degrading, deluding, denuding, deriding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, exploding, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, feuding, Fielding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, guarding, guiding, handholding, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, impeding, imploding, inbreeding, including, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, lauding, leading, loading, madding, marauding, masquerading, Melding, misleading, misreading, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbuilding, outbidding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overloading, overriding, padding, parading, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, preceding, precluding, presiding, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebuilding, receding, recording, Redding, Reding, regarding, rereading, residing, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, safeguarding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, spearheading, speeding, spreading, stampeding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, threading, tiding, trading, treading, unfolding, unloading, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, Wooding, wording, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-n-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: stounding. | |
-2 letters: anginous, daunting, donating, outgains, snouting, sounding, standing, sudation, undoings. | |
-3 letters: adnouns, agonist, agoutis, anoints, antigun, antings, astound, atoning, audings, autoing, dauting, doating, dousing, dunting, dusting, ganoids, gitanos, guanins, guidons, nations, nonsuit, nougats, onanist, ousting, outgain, outings, outsang, outsing, sanding, staning, stoning, tousing, tunings, undoing. | |
-4 letters: adnoun, adonis, agouti, anions, anoint, anting, auding. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-n-n-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: outstanding. | |
+2 letters: astoundingly. | |
+3 letters: cotransducing, outdistancing, outstandingly, subordinating, undercoatings. | |
+4 letters: countershading, degranulations. | |
+5 letters: countershadings. | |
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