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Amazed vs Flabbergasted - What's the difference?

amazed | flabbergasted |

Flabbergasted is a synonym of amazed.



As adjectives the difference between amazed and flabbergasted

is that amazed is astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised while flabbergasted is appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.{{reference-book.

As verbs the difference between amazed and flabbergasted

is that amazed is past tense of amaze while flabbergasted is past tense of flabbergast.

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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    flabbergasted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.{{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 }}
    He was flabbergasted at how much weight he had gained.
  • * 1952. Agnes Morley Cleaveland. Satan's Paradise: from Lucien Maxwell to Fred Lambert . Houghton-Mifflin.
  • Maxwell made a lunge at his flabbergasted guest, who ducked just in time to escape the great hands reaching for him.
  • * 2008. Dutch Sheets. Watchman Prayer: Keeping the Enemy Out While Protecting Your Family, Home . Gospel Light. page 57.
  • From behind her paper, she was flabbergasted to see a neatly dressed man helping himself to her cookies.
  • (euphemistic) Damned.{{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 }}

    Alternative forms

    * flabagasted * flambergasted

    Synonyms

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (flabbergast)
  • References