Suprised vs Flabbergasted - What's the difference?

suprised | flabbergasted |


As adjectives the difference between suprised and flabbergasted

is that suprised is while flabbergasted is appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted{{reference-book.

As a verb flabbergasted is

(flabbergast).

suprised

English

Adjective

(head)

    • 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

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  • (flabbergast)

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