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Flabbergasted vs Astound - What's the difference?

flabbergasted | astound |

As adjectives the difference between flabbergasted and astound

is that flabbergasted is appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.{{reference-book while astound is stunned; astounded; astonished.

As verbs the difference between flabbergasted and astound

is that flabbergasted is past tense of flabbergast while astound is to astonish, bewilder or dazzle.

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

    See

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flabbergast)
  • References

    astound

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To astonish, bewilder or dazzle.
  • Derived terms

    * astounding

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Stunned; astounded; astonished.
  • (Spenser)
    (Sir Walter Scott)