Bewildered vs Flabbergasted - What's the difference?
bewildered | flabbergasted |
Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, or uncertain.
(bewilder)
Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.{{reference-book
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* 1952. Agnes Morley Cleaveland. Satan's Paradise: from Lucien Maxwell to Fred Lambert . Houghton-Mifflin.
* 2008. Dutch Sheets. Watchman Prayer: Keeping the Enemy Out While Protecting Your Family, Home . Gospel Light. page 57.
(euphemistic) Damned.{{reference-book
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(flabbergast)
As adjectives the difference between bewildered and flabbergasted
is that bewildered is baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, or uncertain while flabbergasted is appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted{{reference-book.As verbs the difference between bewildered and flabbergasted
is that bewildered is (bewilder) while flabbergasted is (flabbergast).bewildered
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.
Derived terms
* bewilderedlyVerb
(head)flabbergasted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was flabbergasted at how much weight he had gained.
- Maxwell made a lunge at his flabbergasted guest, who ducked just in time to escape the great hands reaching for him.
- From behind her paper, she was flabbergasted to see a neatly dressed man helping himself to her cookies.
