Aghast vs Astonished - What's the difference?
aghast | astonished |
Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
* 1902 , The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.
* 1985 , Les Misérables , the song "Red and Black"
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/14/england-scotland-international-friendly]
(astonish)
As adjectives the difference between aghast and astonished
is that aghast is terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror while astonished is amazed; surprised.As a verb astonished is
(astonish).aghast
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.
- I am agog! I am aghast ! Is Marius in love at last?
- Hart, for one, will not remember the night for Lambert's heroics. Morrison, not closed down quickly enough, struck his shot well but England's No1 will be aghast at the way it struck his gloves then skidded off his knees and into the net.