astounding (adj.)
- amazing
- appalling
- astonishing
- awe-inspiring
- awesome
- awful
- breathtaking
- confounding
- dire
- direful
- dread
- dreaded
- fell
- formidable
- ghastly
- ghoulish
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrid
- horrific
- horrifying
- macabre
- mind-boggling
- miraculous
- morbid
- overwhelming
- prodigious
- redoubtable
- shocking
- spectacular
- staggering
- startling
- stunning
- stupendous
- surprising
- terrible
- terrific
- tremendous
- wonderful
- wondrous