unastonishing

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ astonishing.

Adjective

unastonishing (comparative more unastonishing, superlative most unastonishing)

1. Not astonishing.
   • 1845, [Eliza Thayer Clapp], Studies in Religion, New York, N.Y.: C. Shepard, page 85:

     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;

   • 1977, Dennis A. Rohatyn, Two Dogmas of Philosophy and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Philosophy, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, →ISBN, page 26:

     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 cliques—analysts on one side, phenomenologists on another; pragmatists here, and existentialists here; and hostile subdivisions within these unarmed camps, aiming verbal barrages at one another.

   • 2012, Geraint A. Wiggins, ““I let the music speak”: Cross-domain application of a cognitive model of musical learning”, in Patrick Rebuschat, John N. Williams, editors, Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition (Studies in Second and Foreign Language Education), De Gruyter, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 484:

     This leads me to the unastonishing prediction that the STM alone would work very poorly for syllabisation, because it will not learn from the corpus, but only from the prefix of each utterance as it proceeds.

Synonyms

• nonastonishing