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amazed | flabbergast |

As verbs the difference between amazed and flabbergast

is that amazed is (amaze) while flabbergast is to overwhelm with bewilderment; to stun, confound or amaze, especially with ludicrous affect{{reference-book.

As an adjective amazed

is astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised.

As a noun flabbergast is

(uncountable) overwhelming surprise, confusion or shock{{reference-book.

amazed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised.
  • *
  • *:And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed .
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=8 citation , passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (amaze)

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    flabbergast

    English

    Verb

  • To overwhelm with bewilderment; to stun, confound or amaze, especially with ludicrous affect.{{reference-book
    • , editor = William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin Eli Smith (Eds.) , year = 1897 , title = The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=XAJPAAAAYAAJ&dq=The+Century+Dictionary+and+Cyclopedia:+Dictionary&source=gbs_navlinks_s , pages = 2245 , publisher = Century }} {{reference-book , editor = Joseph Wright (Ed.) , year = 1900 , title = The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=90MOAQAAMAAJ&dq=flabbergasting&source=gbs_navlinks_s , pages = 376 , publisher = H. Frowde }}
    He was flabbergasted to find that his work had been done for him before he began.
    Her stupidity flabbergasts me, and I have to force myself to keep a straight face while she explains her beliefs.
    I love to flabbergast the little-minded by shattering their preconceptions about my nationality and gender.
    The oddity of the situation was so flabbergasting I couldn't react in time for anyone to see it.
  • * 1772. Edmund Burke. The Annual Register, Dec. 15, 1772 . " On New Words". Longmans, Green. page 191.
    • Now we are flabbergasted and bored from morning to night — in the senate, at Cox's museum, at Ranelagh, and even at church.
  • * 1861. Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Insulted and Injured . Kessinger Publishing. page 258.
    • Well, some degree of the same pleasure may be experienced when one flabbergasts some romantic Schiller, by putting out one's tongue at him when he least expects it.
  • * 1926. Austin Harrison. Frederic Harrison: Thoughts and Memories . W. Heinemann. page 189.
    • For instance, I could offend, shock, annoy, distress and flabbergast''' your father utterly in five minutes, but the more I tried to offend, shock, distress or '''flabbergast Henry James, the more disinterestedly sympathetic he would appear.
  • * 1956. John Thomas Flynn. The Roosevelt Myth . Ludwig von Mises Institute. page 50.
    • He loved to flabbergast his associates by announcing some startling new policy without consulting any of them.
  • * 2008. Harry Turtledove. The United States of Atlantis . Penguin. page 240.
    • "The idea ''may'' surprise you, but I intend that it ''shall'' flabbergast''' the poor foolish Englishmen mured up behind those pine and redwood logs. '''Flabbergast 'em, I say!"

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "flabbergast")

    Derived terms

    * flabbergasting * flabbergastingly

    Alternative forms

    * flabagast * flabaghast * flabbergaster * flabberghast * flabergast

    Synonyms

    * amaze * astound * astonish * astony * awe * baffle * bewilder * bowl over * dazzle * dumbfound * flabagast * floor * nonplus * shock * stagger * startle * stun * stupefy * take aback * unnerve See

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) Overwhelming surprise, confusion or shock.{{reference-book
    • , last = Green , first = Jonathan , year = 2005 , title = Cassell's Dictionary of Slang , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC&dq=flabbergast&source=gbs_navlinks_ss , pages = 511 , publisher = Sterling Publishing Company }}
    When I saw my house on fire, the flabbergast overcame me and I just stood and stared, too shocked to comprehend what I was seeing.
    His flabbergast was so great he couldn't even come up with a plausible answer.
  • * 1868. Oliver Optic's magazine: Our boys and girls, Volumes 3-4 . Lee and Shepard. page 117.
    • Then quit your flabbergast , and talk in plain English.
  • * 2000. James Carlos Blake. Red Grass River: A Legend . HarperCollins. page 52.
    • Bob's big-eyed flabbergast struck him as comic and he laughed and said, “Lying sack, hey?”
  • (countable) An awkward person.{{reference-book
    • , last = Green , first = Jonathan , year = 2005 , title = Cassell's Dictionary of Slang , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC&dq=flabbergast&source=gbs_navlinks_ss , pages = 511 , publisher = Sterling Publishing Company }}

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "flabbergast")

    Synonyms

    * and (overwhelming surprise or shock) astonishment, astoundedness, awe, flabbergastment, shock, stupefaction, surprise * (an awkward person) dork, dweeb, geek, flabagast

    Alternative forms

    * flabagast * flabaghast * flabbergaster * flabbergastation * flabbergastment * flabberghast * flabergast

    References