flabbergasted

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈflæbəɡæstəd/
• (America) IPA: /ˈflæbɚˌɡæstəd/

Adjective

flabbergasted

1. Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.

   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.

2. (euphemistic, rare) Damned.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:astonished

Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of flabbergast

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