When you see your mom come back from the salon with bright green spiky hair and your jaw drops to the floor in total shock, you’re flabbergasted. You are really, really shocked — pretty much speechless.
Use the adjective flabbergasted to describe someone who's astounded or surprised for any reason, good or bad. You could be flabbergasted at how astonishingly expensive a parking ticket is, or at how incredibly delicious pineapple pizza is. Flabbergasted has been used since the late 18th century, but no one knows for sure where it originated. The word sounds like what it means: when you say it out loud — "flabbergasted!" — it somehow captures the spirit of astonishment and shock.
Use the adjective flabbergasted to describe someone who's astounded or surprised for any reason, good or bad. You could be flabbergasted at how astonishingly expensive a parking ticket is, or at how incredibly delicious pineapple pizza is. Flabbergasted has been used since the late 18th century, but no one knows for sure where it originated. The word sounds like what it means: when you say it out loud — "flabbergasted!" — it somehow captures the spirit of astonishment and shock.
by Abyss03 June 13, 2018
FLABBERGASTED is defined as when your heart jumps with surprise at an amazingly unique difference in your life; often a change or surprise!
by Queen/Cupcakes/Sister February 21, 2017
by pull up in a ford focus April 05, 2022
by Cameron Springer November 08, 2005
Verb, transitive.
To be amazed, awestruck or suprised into a lapse in action.
To stop what one is doing because of the shock of an event or action.
To be amazed, awestruck or suprised into a lapse in action.
To stop what one is doing because of the shock of an event or action.
I was flabbergast at the previously posted example for flabbergast, which prompted my entry for the word.
by Nate January 22, 2004
the act of being flabbergasted.
oh my gosh, i can't believe it!....
Don't bother me right now, I'm in the middle of flabbergastation.
Don't bother me right now, I'm in the middle of flabbergastation.
by AppleJuice May 03, 2008