Meanings
- rareuncountableThe act of surprising.
- rareuncountableThe state of being surprised; surprise.
I live up North, so you can understand my surprisement when we turned on simpsons^([sic]) to hear it in Spanish.
1999 December 30, Andrew Morin, “Weird thing happened in syndication today”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Dec 20252 more examples
The sin tax of 1990 has just expired. The next day, you go to your local convenient store, hoping that your pack of cigarettes has dropped in cost from $2.20 to $2.12. To your surprisement, the price is the same.
1996 January 24, K Bear 4, “Browns Fans Are Freaks: Says a Maryland Poster”, in alt.sports.football.pro.cleve-browns (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Dec 2025I have tried taking the h files that i got with borland C++ on the cover of a mag,and putting them into the compiler, but it doesn't work... not to my surprisement, as nothing seems to be working at the mo. :o(
1998 October 28, Tom, “need h files...”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Dec 2025Synonyms: surprisedness
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nounThe state of being surprised; surprise.
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surprisement. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/surprisement
“surprisement.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/surprisement. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “surprisement,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/surprisement.
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