Flabbergasted vs Sterling - What's the difference?
flabbergasted | sterling |
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.
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(euphemistic) Damned.{{reference-book
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(flabbergast)
The currency of the United Kingdom; especially the pound.
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, chapter=1 Former British gold or silver coinage of a standard fineness: for gold 0.91666 and for silver 0.925.
* S. M. Leake
Sterling silver, or articles made from this material.
A structure of pilings that protects the piers of a bridge; a starling.
of, or relating to British currency, or the former British coinage.
of, relating to, or made from sterling silver.
Of acknowledged worth or influence; high quality; authoritative.
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Genuine; true; pure; of great value or excellence.
As adjectives the difference between flabbergasted and sterling
is that flabbergasted is appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.{{reference-book while sterling is of, or relating to British currency, or the former British coinage.As a verb flabbergasted
is past tense of flabbergast.As a noun sterling is
the currency of the United Kingdom; especially the pound.As a proper noun Sterling is
a Scottish surname, variant of Stirling.flabbergasted
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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.
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* flabagasted * flambergastedSynonyms
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sterling
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(wikipedia sterling)Noun
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- Sterling was the known and approved standard in England, in all probability, from the beginning of King Henry the Second's reign.
Adjective
(-)citation, page= , passage=Southampton had been hoping to get back to winning ways to prove to their critics there was substance to their sterling start to the season.}}