different between foiled vs nonplussed
foiled
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??ld/
Verb
foiled
- simple past tense and past participle of foil
Adjective
foiled (not comparable)
- (architecture) Having a foil.
Anagrams
- defoil, feloid
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nonplussed
English
Etymology
From an earlier verb form of nonplus, from Latin n?n pl?s (“no more, no further”), early 1600s. The etymological sense is similar to being left speechless as a result of confusion: the person can say or do "no more".
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /n?n?pl?st/
- (General American) IPA(key): /n?n?pl?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Adjective
nonplussed (comparative more nonplussed, superlative most nonplussed)
- Bewildered; unsure how to respond or act. [from 17th c.]
- 1724, Daniel Defoe, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress:
- Note, the honest Quaker was nonplussed, and greatly surprised at that question.
- 2000, Marcia Miller & Martin Lee, Vocabulary, Word of the Day
- "Dad was so nonplussed by the new VCR that he gave up and asked Mom to set it for him".
- 1724, Daniel Defoe, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress:
- (proscribed, US, informal) Unfazed, unaffected, or unimpressed. [from 20th c.]
Usage notes
In recent North American English nonplussed has acquired the alternative meaning of "unimpressed". In 1999, this was considered a neologism, ostensibly from "not plussed", although "plussed" is itself a nonstandard word, seemingly a back-formation from nonplussed. The "unimpressed" meaning is proscribed as nonstandard by Ask Oxford.
Synonyms
- (bewildered): perplexed, vexed, thwarted, frustrated, foiled, confounded
Translations
Verb
nonplussed
- simple past tense and past participle of nonplus
See also
- plussed (“not nonplussed”)
References
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