What's the difference between astonished and speechless?

Astonished


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Astonish

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (2) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (3) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
  • (4) Puskas, possessed of a left foot of astonishing power, and his team colleagues, Sandor Kocsis and Zoltan Czibor, all found their way to Spain.
  • (5) Results of venous thrombectomies are particularly astonishingly good in phlegmasia coerulea and it is therefore mandatory to transfer all fresh cases of thrombosis of the deep veins of the peelvis and lower extremities to an angiologic center in order to differentiate cases for fibrinolytic therapy, from those which require surgical intervention.
  • (6) FWA chairman Andy Dunn said: "Those members who have been fortunate enough to be working at a match involving Luis Suárez have witnessed an astonishing talent first-hand.
  • (7) Even Corbyn’s fiercest critics have to concede he has achieved something astonishing.
  • (8) Recently released figures from the Veterans Administration on the number of Vietnam veterans who have been granted service connection in their claims for post-traumatic stress disorder appear to be astonishingly low, given the publicity that the media and mental health professionals have placed on this diagnosis in recent years.
  • (9) It is, in fact, quite astonishing to find British housebuilders and planners going along with the design and construction of such decent new homes.
  • (10) Over the past year, they’ve been to five continents and discovered an astonishing world of insect flavour.
  • (11) "The memorable 1961 British Home Championship yielded an astonishing 40 goals from six matches," writes Erik Kennedy.
  • (12) The complication rate was astonishingly low during IUSC: being only 4.3% (2 male patients, one with stricture of the urethra and epididymitis, one with autonomous dysreflexia with bladder overdistension).
  • (13) He added: “In the context of very surprising populist electoral successes in the US it would be astonishing if the BBC didn’t interview her.
  • (14) So how did Vanity Fair decide to illustrate this heartfelt and rather astonishing interview?
  • (15) Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, said he would be astonished if the coalition had not enacted a lobbyists' register and a power to recall errant MPs by 2015.
  • (16) At one point, Hodge said she was astonished that the secretary of state had claimed that Stephens had approved Smith's role.
  • (17) Individualism – the assertion of every person’s claim to maximised private freedom and the unrestrained liberty to express autonomous desires … became the leftwing watchword of the hour.” The result was an astonishing liberation: from millennia of social, gender and sexual control by powerful, mostly elderly men.
  • (18) She is fantastically clever and when she's on about ideas she is astonishing.
  • (19) The kinetic data obtained using lysine-containing model peptides as substrates indicate an astonishing similarity to mammalian lysyloxidase.
  • (20) "We are a struggling small business and I am astonished that banks are allowed to get away with handling their accounts in this way.

Speechless


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.
  • (a.) Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Oh my goodness I am truly speechless,” Aduba told Good Morning America .
  • (2) Axel Schäfer, European affairs spokesman for the Social Democratic party (SPD), said: “Like many other politicians in Germany I am speechless at what stupidity nationalism can trigger in seemingly intelligent people.
  • (3) During three month periods, the patient progressively became somnolent, speechless and immobile.
  • (4) Stewart Regan, SFA chief executive "I am speechless at the news of Gary Speed's death.
  • (5) To provide a luxurious pension was never the aim of the state pension.” When I relay his comments to Dr Ros Altmann, who worked on pensions policy with the No 10 policy unit, is the UK government’s former older workers champion and a governor of the Pensions Policy Institute, she is left briefly speechless.
  • (6) The cutting of mobile libraries leaves me speechless.
  • (7) The x-rays, scans, medication, food, cleaning staff, porters that have been given to me because I’m British leave me speechless.
  • (8) Of course I agreed, but I frequently find myself left speechless when observing countries with the fewest resources revealing some of the best social work practices.
  • (9) The actress was rendered speechless by the second win – one of the more unexpected of the night.
  • (10) Five months after head injury, when he was first admitted to us, he was stable with signs of oligokinesia, katatonic posture, speechlessness, rigid muscle tones and positive cog-wheel phenomenon.
  • (11) Mick Fett, who helped organise the event, said the film had left him speechless.
  • (12) The patient was observed immediately upon admission to the hospital, and he was noted from the outset to have wakeful speechlessness.
  • (13) As I look back at all the developments to date, I’m simply speechless,” he said.
  • (14) BBC host Graham Norton was left speechless by a particularly risque display from Poland's entry Donatan and Cleo.
  • (15) The speechless patient presents a unique challenge to the clinician working with neurologically impaired adults.
  • (16) For this laryngectomee, the VoiceBak is truly speech for the speechless.
  • (17) Tottenham Hotspur’s Dele Alli says he was left “speechless” by his maiden England call-up , just five months after playing in League One.
  • (18) When it was revealed that she had made it to next week’s final, Birtwhistle said: “I am speechless.
  • (19) Patients may be rendered speechless because of many conditions, including cancer surgery, stroke, cerebral palsy, cervical cord and head trauma, neuromuscular paralysis, and intubation for respiratory failure.
  • (20) American Indian sign, used as a gestural communication system for the speechless, served the daily life needs of patients with a variety of deficits, many with unfavorable prognosis for oral speech rehabilitation.