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flabbergastment

flabbergastment noun: synonym of flabbergast (“overwhelming shock or surprise”).

Noun

flabbergastment (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of flabbergast (“overwhelming shock or surprise”)
    • It was the Wells-Fargo coach, the Deadwood coach of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the coach from which steps that pulchritudinous schoolmarm from the East to the flabbergastment of gawping cowpokes.1963, National Geographic, Vol. 122, National Geographic Society
    • I even attempted tears myself, but flabbergastment dried my eyes.1988, John Barth, Lost in the funhouse: fiction for print, tape, live voice, Anchor Press, page 69

Synonyms of flabbergastment

Origin of flabbergastment

From flabbergast + -ment.

Questions about flabbergastment

What does flabbergastment mean?
Flabbergastment means synonym of flabbergast (“overwhelming shock or surprise”).
What part of speech is flabbergastment?
Flabbergastment is a noun.

Words near flabbergastment in the dictionary

  1. flabbergastered
  2. flabbergastering
  3. flabbergasters
  4. flabbergasting
  5. flabbergastingly
  6. flabbergastment
  7. flabbergasts
  8. flabberghast
  9. flabberghasted
  10. flabberghasting
  11. flabberghasts

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