Flabbergasted
Sponsored by Greg FraddCame first in group 279 in round 1 with 359 votesbeat Nibble on 157 votesbeat Abuzz on 41 votesbeat Elegant on 41 votes
Came first in group 70 in round 2 with 603 votesbeat Chagrin on 152 votesbeat Saunter on 149 votesbeat Extraneous on 94 votes
Won in group 35 in round 3 with 731 votesbeat Carbuncle on 285 votes
Lost in group 18 in round 4 with 515 votesbeaten by Skedaddle on 522 votes
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Past tense of flabbergast.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈflæbə(ˌ)ɡɑːstəd/, /ˈflæbə(ˌ)ɡæstəd/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈflæbɚˌɡæstəd/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file)
Adjective
[edit]flabbergasted (comparative more flabbergasted, superlative most flabbergasted)
- Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.[1]
- 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.
- 2014 August 16, BBC News, Why have tailgate parties not spread to the UK?[3]:
- On his first encounter with tailgating in 2006, he was flabbergasted at the way rival fans mixed peaceably together at the parties. A Chicago Bears fan, he was warmly welcomed into a group of Arizona Cardinals fans and fed. "I was shocked and slightly worried. I thought they were going to poison me. It was just so odd."
- (euphemistic, rare) Damned.[2]
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted
|
euphemistic: damned
|
Verb
[edit]flabbergasted
- simple past and past participle of flabbergast