astonishingly
/əˈstɒnɪʃɪŋli/ (bre, ipa) · /əˈstɑːnɪʃɪŋli/ (ame, ipa)
astonishingly — adverb
1. In a way that causes great surprise or shock, often because something is far bey
In a way that causes great surprise or shock, often because something is far beyond what would normally be expected.
Kavya played the violin astonishingly well for someone who had only started a year ago.
astonishingly well
The biologist described the test results as astonishingly clear and easy to read.
astonishingly clear
Astonishingly, the small village had three libraries and a theatre for only two hundred people.
Ricardo climbed the steep mountain astonishingly fast despite his injured knee.
Those old photographs were astonishingly sharp, as if taken with a modern camera.
- amazingly
slightly less formal and more common in everyday speech; carries a more positive tone of wonder rather than shock
- incredibly
emphasises that something is hard to believe rather than just surprising; slightly more informal
- surprisingly
the most neutral and common alternative; weaker in intensity than 'astonishingly'
- staggeringly
reserved for large quantities or extreme degrees; more formal than 'astonishingly'
- predictably
describes an outcome that happens as expected, the opposite of a surprising result
- unsurprisingly
used when something is exactly what one would expect; common in academic and journalistic writing
文法句型
astonishingly + adjective/adverb
astonishingly, [clause]
用法筆記
Often used at the beginning of a sentence to express the speaker's surprise about the whole situation that follows. Common in both spoken and written English, especially in descriptions of unexpected achievements, qualities, or quantities.