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Flabbergasted   /flˈæbərgˌæstɪd/   Listen
Flabbergasted

adjective
1.
As if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise.  Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, stupefied, thunderstruck.  "The flabbergasted aldermen were speechless" , "Was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion"



Flabbergast

verb
1.
Overcome with amazement.  Synonyms: boggle, bowl over.






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"Flabbergasted" Quotes from Famous Books



... Clo. "I saw he was flabbergasted. But that first time at the door, when he was with his wife, he didn't look at me as if I were a stranger. It was as if he knew me, and almost fell over himself to see me again. That was the feeling I had, ...
— The Lion's Mouse • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... Mr. and Mrs. Courtney Van Winkle threshed out the amazing situation, and in the mists of the Maine coast, the flabbergasted father of the three young men who fared forth to make men of themselves agonised over the result of ...
— Her Weight in Gold • George Barr McCutcheon

... mind collapses from the brain strain, logical mind is dumb flabbergasted; and as for me, I get a bleak and wintry look in my eyes and go around wondering whether I am sailing toward the China coast or ...
— The Cruise of the Snark • Jack London

... Gazabo, who had now sufficiently recovered from his fright and amazement to be able to speak: "Dear heart! who could go for to suspect such a thing? but they made such a bustle and noise, they quite flabbergasted me, so many on them in this small room. Please to sit down, my lady.—Is there any thing I ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth

... were vitriolic with disgust. "I sabe what you are hintin' at when you gas of morals—which I'm a heap acquainted with because I ain't got none to speak of. But I'm plumb flabbergasted when you go to connectin' a battleship with anything that's got a whole lot to do with morals. Accordin' to my schoolin', a monitor is a thing which blows ...
— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer


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