different between flabbergasted vs flabbergastation

English

Alternative forms

• flabagasted
• flambergasted

Etymology

Past tense of flabbergast.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?flæb??æst?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?flæb???æst?d/

Adjective

flabbergasted (comparative more flabbergasted, superlative most flabbergasted)

1. Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.
   • 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

Translations

Verb

flabbergasted

1. simple past tense and past participle of flabbergast

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Anagrams

• gabberflasted

English

Etymology

flabbergast +? -ation

Noun

flabbergastation (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
   • 1856. Punch, Vol. 31. The Punch Office. page 240.

     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.

   • 1832-1837. Honoré de Balzac. Droll Stories: Volume 2. Kessinger Publishing. page 65

     Upon a sign, she takes ahold of two cords of black silk, to which were attached loops, through which she passes her arms, and in the twinkling of an eye is translated by two pulleys from her bed through the ceiling into the room above, and the trap closing as it has opened, left the old duenna in a state of great flabbergastation, when, turning her head, she neither saw robe nor woman, and perceived that the women had been robbed.

   • 1918. Shaw Desmond. The Soul of Denmark. C. Scribner's Sons. page 96.

     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...

   • 1944. Field and Stream: Volume 49. CBS Publications. page 90.

     Winchester .22 Automatic which we saw demonstrated (to our utter flabbergastation) in a local hardware store by a visiting Winchester representative.

   • 1998. Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife: On the Other Side Known Commonly as "The Little Book". Daniel Quinn, Tom Whalen. Random House Digital.

     Ignoring the other's utter flabbergastation, Matthews turned and graciously introduced him to me.

2. (archaic, colloquial, humorous) The act of confounding or bewildering.

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