different between nonplussed vs troubled
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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troubled
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??bl?d/
Adjective
troubled (comparative more troubled, superlative most troubled)
- anxious, worried, careworn.
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
Translations
Verb
troubled
- simple past tense and past participle of trouble
troubled From the web:
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- what troubled muhammad about meccan society
- what troubled brutus
- what troubled the author at darchen
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- what trouble are more than the storm
- what troubled maddie more and more
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