Definition of Dumbfounding

1. Adjective. Bewildering or striking dumb with wonder.

Exact synonyms: Astounding, Dumfounding
Similar to: Incredible, Unbelievable

Definition of Dumbfounding

1. Verb. (present participle of ''dumbfound'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dumbfounding

1. dumbfound [v] - See also: dumbfound

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dumbfounding

dumbed down
dumbell
dumbells
dumben
dumber
dumber than a rock
dumbest
dumbfound
dumbfounded
dumbfoundedly
dumbfoundedness
dumbfounder
dumbfoundered
dumbfoundering
dumbfounders
dumbfounding
dumbfoundingly
dumbfounds
dumbhead
dumbheads
dumbing
dumbing down
dumbish
dumble
dumble-dor

Literary usage of Dumbfounding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... dumbfounding, a stupefying; said to mean a rough amusement in which one person struck another hard and stealthily upon the back; 'That witty recreation, ..."

2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1900)
"Selling facetious bargains, and propounding I see him ogle still, and hear him chat; 45 That witty recreation, called dumbfounding, t Their loss with ..."

3. Some Contemporary Poets (1920) by Harold Monro, Thomas Sturge Moore (1920)
"As reason wakes, lads find themselves asked to accept not only the dumbfounding universe but monstrous social and political accumulations; and, ..."

4. Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages by Salomon Reinach (1907)
"From the latter he took his taste for aerial movement, for figures hovering in mid-ajr, soaring overhead, riding on clouds, dumbfounding the spectator ..."

5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"It was dumbfounding to think that while in all my ornithological observations in this section I had never seen a score of ..."

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