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thunderstruck

UK/ˈθʌn.də.stɹʌk//ˈθʌn.dɚ.stɹʌk/

thunderstruck adjective: astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak.

Adjective

thunderstruck (comparative more thunderstruck, superlative most thunderstruck)

  1. Astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak.
    • The overthrown he rais’d, and as a Heard
      Of Goats or timerous flock together throngd
      Drove them before him Thunder-struck,1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
    • Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck, till some man, - I was told the chief's son, - in desperation at hearing the old chap yell, made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man - and of course it went quite easy between the...1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198

thunderstruck meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

thunderstruck in Malayalam

ഇടിമിന്നലേറ്റ, അമ്പരന്ന, നടുങ്ങിയ

thunderstruck in Kannada

ಸಿಡಿಲೆರಗಿದ, ನಿಬ್ಬೆರಗಾದ, ದಿಗ್ಭ್ರಾಂತ, ಬೆಕ್ಕಸಂಬೆರಗು, ಬೆಕ್ಕಸಬೆರಗು

Examples of thunderstruck in a sentence

  • Tarzan was thunderstruck, but in an instant he realized a part of the truth.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 43:
  • And for days Europe and the great powers were thunderstruck, again and yet again, by the news of Turkish forts falling, Turkish cohorts collapsing, the unconquerable Crescent going down in blood.1916, G. K. Chesterton, chapter IX, in The Crimes of England:
  • I'm-I'm kinda-- I'm thunderstruck.” “Oh, well, I'm sorry, man.2008 September 25, David Hornsby, “Mac's Banging the Waitress” (1:38 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 4...

Synonyms of thunderstruck

Forms of thunderstruck

comparativemore thunderstruck
superlativemost thunderstruck

Origin of thunderstruck

From thunder + struck. Compare synonymous and cognate Latin attonitus. Also compare typologically Ancient Greek ἐμβρόντητος (embróntētos) (< βροντή (brontḗ)) (whence Greek εμβρόντητος (emvróntitos)); Czech ohromený (< ohromit), Bulgarian като ударен от гръм (kato udaren ot grăm), Russian как гро́мом поражённый (kak grómom poražónnyj) (akin to гром (grom)). See also German wie vom Donner gerührt.

Questions about thunderstruck

What does thunderstruck mean?
Thunderstruck means astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak.
What is thunderstruck in Malayalam?
Thunderstruck in Malayalam is ഇടിമിന്നലേറ്റ, അമ്പരന്ന, നടുങ്ങിയ. See Thunderstruck meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use thunderstruck in a sentence?
Tarzan was thunderstruck, but in an instant he realized a part of the truth.
What part of speech is thunderstruck?
Thunderstruck is an adjective.
How do you pronounce thunderstruck?
Thunderstruck is pronounced /ˈθʌn.də.stɹʌk/ (UK).

Words near thunderstruck in the dictionary

  1. thunderstrike
  2. thunderstrikes
  3. thunderstriking
  4. thunderstroke
  5. thunderstrokes
  6. thunderstruck
  7. thunderwood
  8. thunderword
  9. thunderwords
  10. thunderworm
  11. thunderworms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thunderstruck (page history and authors); thunderstruck (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thunderstruck (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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