Flabbergaster

Quick meaning: Flabbergaster is a noun meaning A person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock.

Meaning

A person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock.

More Meanings

1. A state of surprise or fear.
2. (archaic) To perplex or amaze; to shock or frighten

Example Sentences

Nothing on earth so delights the Mexican heart as a real flabbergaster of a funeral.

But I've got an invention in my 'ead — at all events, the notion of an invention, that I ventures to say will work wonders in the terrestrial globe — flabbergaster the world!

This first flabbergaster was that the new Sultan had decided he wanted at least a third of the construction crew to be made up of Saruvian workers, even though the museum would be built in Austria.

Jack, among his friends, had raised money sufficient to fee an Old Bailey counsel, who, by blustering and cross-examination, succeeded in so flabbergastering the simple witnesses for the prosecution, that the prisoner was in a fair way of being acquitted; […]

Word Forms

• flabbergasters
• flabbergastering
• flabbergastered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flabbergastedness, flabbergastation, flabbergastment, flabergastation, flabbergast, astonishment.

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