Flabbergastation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Flabbergastation is a noun meaning (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
Meaning
(colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
More Meanings
- (archaic, colloquial, humorous) The act of confounding or bewildering.
Example Sentences
Ignoring the other's utter flabbergastation, Matthews turned and graciously introduced him to me.
Winchester .22 Automatic which we saw demonstrated (to our utter flabbergastation) in a local hardware store by a visiting Winchester representative.
I can recall my flabbergastation when in the house of a Jutlander of the middle class I heard him holding fluent converse with his children in some heathen dialect.
We scarcely remember to have ever seen any respectable party in a greater state of flabbergastation than the writer of some observations in Mb. Cobden's Russo-Manchesterian organ, the Morning Star, of Thursday, December the fourth.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include flabbergastedness, flabergastation, flabbergast, flabbergastment, flabbergaster, stupefaction.
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