flabbergastment

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noun

Synonym of flabbergast (“overwhelming shock or surprise”)

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Meanings

nounflabbergastment (uncountable)
  1. uncountableSynonym of flabbergast (“overwhelming shock or surprise”)

    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
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    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

    She had the immense satisfaction of watching him trip over his own tongue, a look of total flabbergastment flooding over his face.

    2002, Timothy Zahn, Angelmass, Macmillan, page 175

    Synonyms: amazement, astonishment, awe, bewilderment, flabbergast, flabbergastation, shock, stupefaction

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of flabbergast (“overwhelming shock or surprise”)

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confusionflabbergastshocksurprise

Origin

From flabbergast + -ment.

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“flabbergastment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flabbergastment. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flabbergastment,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flabbergastment.

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