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unastonishing

unastonishing adjective: not astonishing.

Adjective

unastonishing (comparative more unastonishing, superlative most unastonishing)

  1. Not astonishing.
    • The Samaritan woman went out that day, as she had, in all probability, myriad times before, to draw water: an unexciting, unastonishing event, that drawing of water;1845, [Eliza Thayer Clapp], Studies in Religion, New York, N.Y.: C. Shepard, page 85
    • With the emergence of a professionalized, academic class of philosophers, in close contact with one another’s thoughts and meeting regularly throughout the world for interchange of ideas, it is equally unastonishing that philosophers should by this time have banded together in closed...1977, Dennis A. Rohatyn, Two Dogmas of Philosophy and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Philosophy, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, →ISBN, page 26
    Synonyms:
    nonastonishing

Synonyms of unastonishing

Forms of unastonishing

comparativemore unastonishing
superlativemost unastonishing

Origin of unastonishing

From un- + astonishing.

Questions about unastonishing

What does unastonishing mean?
Unastonishing means not astonishing.
What part of speech is unastonishing?
Unastonishing is an adjective.

Words near unastonishing in the dictionary

  1. unassuredness
  2. unassuring
  3. unasterisked
  4. unastonishable
  5. unastonished
  6. unastonishing
  7. unastounded
  8. unastounding
  9. unastoundingly
  10. unastute
  11. unate

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