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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flabbergasted
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Doctors said they were flabbergasted at the decision to close the hospital.
▪ Studio executives were flabbergasted at the film's extraordinary success.
▪ The delivery men just left the furniture in my front yard. I was flabbergasted.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was flabbergasted how it turned out.
▪ I tell you I was flabbergasted and right terrified out of my wits.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flabbergasted
Wiktionary
flabbergasted
  1. appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.{{reference-book alt. (en-past of: flabbergast) v

  2. (en-past of: flabbergast)

WordNet
flabbergasted

adj. as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise; "a circle of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accident"; "the flabbergasted aldermen were speechless"; "was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion" [syn: dumbfounded, dumfounded, stupefied, thunderstruck]

Usage examples of "flabbergasted".

Peter Easley, who had been just as flabbergasted as everyone else on the bridge, absorbed that news before Ray Scott or John Beverly did.

Grenejon looked flabbergasted, the duchess surprised, Moxtell amazed, and all the others merely gawked.

Robinton was flabbergasted as he took the score from his mother's hand.

Of course, he had been so flabbergasted to find a little dragon butting him, that he had had to be urged by T'gellan, the Weyrleader, and the Weyrling master to accept the lmpression.

The more he thought about his whole trip the more flabbergasted he became.

But when the flabbergasted deckhand began hurriedly unlashing and flinging off the boat's tarpaulin cover, Fitz sauntered away, smiling.

The Pete Jenkins flabbergasted this august audience as much as it had done any crowd of yokels, and, after the intrusive drunk became Maurice LeVie, he and Paprika became a faultless dazzle of blue and orange on the trapezes.

Banat and the other Slovaks were flabbergasted when even they received gifts: a fine astrakhan fur hat apiece.

I was flabbergasted to see Little Phil there, but he would have been a damned sight more so, if he had looked up just then, to see me driving a circus wagon through Kurhesse—a Confederate he'd fought against in the Shenandoah Valley, and stood next to during the stacking of arms at Appomattox.

Langdon's Jewish students always looked flabbergasted when he first told them that the early Jewish tradition involved ritualistic sex.