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flabagast

flabagast is the archaic spelling of flabbergast.

Meaning of flabbergast

Verb

flabbergast (third-person singular simple present flabbergasts, present participle flabbergasting, simple past flabbergasted, past participle flabbergasted or flabbergast)

  1. (transitive) To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze, confound, or stun, especially in a ludicrous manner.
    • He was flabbergasted to find that his work had been done for him before he began.
    Synonyms:
    flabbergaster

See all 3 meanings of flabbergast

Forms of flabagast

Verb
third-person singular presentflabagasts
present participleflabagasting
pastflabagasted
past participleflabagasted
past participleflabagast
Noun
pluralflabagasts

Questions about flabagast

What is flabagast the archaic spelling of?
Flabagast is the archaic spelling of flabbergast.

Words near flabagast in the dictionary

  1. fl.
  2. fl. oz.
  3. FLA
  4. Fla.
  5. flab
  6. flabagast
  7. flabagasted
  8. flabagasting
  9. flabagasts
  10. flabaghast
  11. flabaghasted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flabagast (page history and authors); flabbergast (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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