Gobsmacked vs Flabbergasted - What's the difference?
gobsmacked | flabbergasted |
(chiefly, British, slang) Flabbergasted, astounded, speechless, overawed.
* 1989 Aug. 7, Glenn Frankel, "Salman Rushdie's Life on the Run," Los Angeles Times :
* 2008 June 16, Caroline Mallan, "Linwood Barclay novel wins a plug on key UK book list," Toronto Star (Canada), p. A2:
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 gobsmacked and flabbergasted
is that gobsmacked is flabbergasted, astounded, speechless, overawed while flabbergasted is appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.{{reference-book.As a verb flabbergasted is
past tense of flabbergast.gobsmacked
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We were as appalled and stunned and confused and gobsmacked (punched on the mouth) as anyone else.
- "I guess the word would be gobsmacked ," Barclay said, of his reaction. "I am stunned."
References
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.