Flummox vs Flabbergasted - What's the difference?
flummox | flabbergasted |
To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
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(flabbergast)
As verbs the difference between flummox and flabbergasted
is that flummox is to confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast while flabbergasted is (flabbergast).As an adjective flabbergasted is
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English
Verb
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Synonyms
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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.