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Astonishment vs Remarkably - What's the difference?

astonishment | remarkably |

As a noun astonishment

is amazement, great surprise.

As an adverb remarkably is

(manner) in a remarkable manner.

astonishment

English

Noun

  • amazement, great surprise
  • An amazing thing or phenomenon.
  • * 1964:
    • Everything he had seen so far--the great chocolate river, the waterfall, the huge sucking pipes, the candy meadows, the Oompa-Loompas, the beautiful pink boat, and most of all, Mr. Willy Wonka himself--had been so astonishing that he began to wonder whether there could possibly be anymore astonishments left.

    Related terms

    * astonish * astonished

    remarkably

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (manner) In a remarkable manner.
    • He performed the piece remarkably , offering novel interpretations to its nearly cliched passages.
  • (degree) To a noteworthy extent.
    • That dog is remarkably fierce.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Suggestions that those leaders are irrational and their decisions unfathomable are remarkably shallow. North Korea is not a theocracy led by zealots who preach the rewards of the afterlife.}}
  • (evaluative) (Used to draw special attention to a proposition).
    • Remarkably , three State assembly elections were decided by a total of fewer than one hundred votes.