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dumbfoundment

dumbfoundment noun: the fact of being dumbfounded or bewildered; astonishment.

Noun

dumbfoundment (uncountable)

  1. The fact of being dumbfounded or bewildered; astonishment.
    • At any rate, Elwes's reaction when he heard his own words was one of complete dumbfoundment. He stood 'stricken as if with a thunderbolt'.1997, Lady Anne Somerset, Unnatural Murder: Poison at the Court of James I, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 282

Synonyms of dumbfoundment

Origin of dumbfoundment

From dumbfound + -ment.

Questions about dumbfoundment

What does dumbfoundment mean?
Dumbfoundment means the fact of being dumbfounded or bewildered; astonishment.
What part of speech is dumbfoundment?
Dumbfoundment is a noun.

Words near dumbfoundment in the dictionary

  1. dumbfoundering
  2. dumbfounderment
  3. dumbfounders
  4. dumbfounding
  5. dumbfoundingly
  6. dumbfoundment
  7. dumbfounds
  8. dumbfuck
  9. dumbfuckers
  10. dumbfuckery
  11. Dumbfuckistan

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