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flabberghast

flabberghast 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 flabberghast

Verb
third-person singular presentflabberghasts
present participleflabberghasting
pastflabberghasted
past participleflabberghasted
past participleflabberghast
Noun
pluralflabberghasts

Questions about flabberghast

What is flabberghast the archaic spelling of?
Flabberghast is the archaic spelling of flabbergast.

Words near flabberghast in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flabberghast (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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