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agastment

agastment is the obsolete spelling of aghastment.

Meaning of aghastment

Noun

aghastment (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The state or quality of being aghast.
    Synonyms:
    aghastness

Origin of agastment

From agast + -ment.

Questions about agastment

What is agastment the obsolete spelling of?
Agastment is the obsolete spelling of aghastment.

Words near agastment in the dictionary

  1. Agassiz
  2. Agassiz's anole
  3. agast
  4. agastache
  5. agastaches
  6. agastment
  7. agastopia
  8. agastric
  9. agastroneuria
  10. Agastya
  11. agate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: agastment (page history and authors); aghastment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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