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

Synonyms of astounded

• amazed
• stunned
• shocked
• astonished
• surprised

Examples 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

Recent Examples on the Web

That tracks, as people were astounded by the pace of user volume pickup with early GPT models, and then also with the ones that came later. —John Werner, Forbes.com, 19 Feb. 2026

Assembly members were astounded that officials couldn’t provide estimates of how much the return-to-office order would cost the state and how much more office space was needed to accommodate workers in person. —William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 26 Jan. 2026

Putin and Xi must be astounded at their good fortune; in Davos, China is already pitching itself to Europe and the world beyond to help pick up the pieces of the American century. —Garrett M. Graff, Wired News, 22 Jan. 2026

Dead & Company bassist Oteil Burbridge, who like Mayer had little background in Grateful Dead music before the band’s formation, was astounded by Weir’s emphasis on searching for something new every night in every song. —Alan Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2026

Word History

Etymology

originally doubled past participle of astonen, astonien "to stun, daze, surprise" — more at astonish

First Known Use

circa 1540, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for astounded

• abounded
• compounded
• confounded
• expounded
• foregrounded
• impounded
• propounded
• rebounded
• resounded
• subrounded
• surrounded
• unbounded