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Flabbergasted   /flˈæbərgˌæstɪd/   Listen
Flabbergasted

adjective
1.
As if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise.  Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, stupefied, thunderstruck.  "The flabbergasted aldermen were speechless" , "Was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion"






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"Flabbergasted" Quotes from Famous Books



... Jack disdainfully, "we'll soon be the ones keeping watch on the Rhine, see if we'll not. Only sillies with their wits flabbergasted by pride would shut their eyes to the handwriting on the wall. But I'm not sorry, for if they keep on enjoying themselves in that way we'll find it an easy job to roam all over the old shack, ...
— Air Service Boys Flying for Victory - or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold • Charles Amory Beach

... We were flabbergasted. Of course we fell to questioning him, but to our wonder, although he "happened" to be a witness of the scene himself, he could give us no detailed account of it. The thing seemed to have happened like this: when the marshal's wife was driving Liza and Mavriky Nikolaevitch ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky



Words linked to "Flabbergasted" :   surprised



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