What does flabbergastingly mean?
Flabbergastingly means Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
It was a good date but the food at the restaurant was so flabbergastingly excellent I could barely think of anything else to talk about.
He had said he would clean his room a thousand times before, but this time he actually did it, and flabbergastingly well too.
1922, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken. The smart set: a magazine of cleverness, Volume 69. Ess Ess Pub. Co. page 49. (There) must be sympathy in the back parlor if it is to get its message across, and that this flabbergastingly important message... is as follows:...
The critical wonderment over the at times curious unevenness of Monckton Hoffe's dramatic writing, over the startlingly good suddenly crossed with the flabbergastingly bad, and vice versa...
As I write, the flabbergastingly fecund David Crystal has just published another book in the tradition, The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left.
Use flabbergastingly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Flabbergastingly means Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It was a good date but the food at the restaurant was so flabbergastingly excellent I could barely think of anything else to talk about.
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