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Flabbergasted vs Puzzled - What's the difference?

flabbergasted | puzzled |

As adjectives the difference between flabbergasted and puzzled

is that flabbergasted is appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted{{reference-book while puzzled is confused or perplexed.

As verbs the difference between flabbergasted and puzzled

is that flabbergasted is (flabbergast) while puzzled is (puzzle).

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

    puzzled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Confused or perplexed.
  • * 1848 , , Vanity Fair , Bradbury and Sons, 11:
    • (...) when the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.

    Derived terms

    * puzzledly * puzzledness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (puzzle)