Used in a Sentence

flabbergast

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for flabbergast.

Editorial note

It's also possible his flabbergast is manufactured and that he was indeed trying to avoid the reporting regulations.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

(transitive) To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze, confound, or stun, especially in a ludicrous manner.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of flabbergast gathered in one view.

verb

(transitive) To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze, confound, or stun, especially in a ludicrous manner.

noun

(uncountable) Overwhelming confusion, shock, or surprise.

noun

(countable) An awkward person.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for flabbergast.

verb

(transitive) To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze, confound, or stun, especially in a ludicrous manner.

noun

(uncountable) Overwhelming confusion, shock, or surprise.

Example sentences

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It's also possible his flabbergast is manufactured and that he was indeed trying to avoid the reporting regulations.

2

Think about it seriously and flabbergast yourself, by finding out what you really wanted to do all your life.

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If there was a good reason for support, it wouldn't flabbergast you that someone might support it.

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Sure, you can always hire some peasant who has the skill but shouldn't flabbergast when other samurais laugh at your incompetence.

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The same goes for the person replying to your comment sharing in your flabbergast.

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There are things in Windows that just flabbergast me that people put up with.

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It continues to flabbergast me just how many people leap to his defense.

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I guess criticising journalism is hack at this point, but these little examples still flabbergast me.

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It's a phenomenon that continues to flabbergast me.

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>>>It's a phenomenon that continues to flabbergast me.

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US Health care is so massively inefficient (results per dollar per capita) that this reluctance to switch to single payer like the rest of the developed world is a level of cognitive dissonance that continues to flabbergast me.

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I was always moderately extroverted and sociable, but the irony has never ceased to flabbergast me that the very behaviours and interests for which nerds like me would have been stuffed into lockers and garbage cans (if I had dared to tell anyone in school that I was into computers) became, only a decade later, de rigueur for every young person.

Quote examples

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Tax rates under 2% of property value should not "flabbergast" anyone.

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We’re at the maximum row count on the system.” Needless to say it gave my team a few days of flabbergast and speculation on what system they must have built on to hit a row limit at only 5 digits.

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There is no "move fast and break things" in the safety instrumented field, the engineering hours per byte/instruction delivered would absolutely flabbergast most software devs, by many orders of magnitude.

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From the article: In an argument that appeared to flabbergast a small claims adjudicator in British Columbia, the airline attempted to distance itself from its own chatbot's bad advice by claiming the online tool was "a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions."

Proper noun examples

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Flabbergast seems to have the right idea, but its lack of examples is a problem.

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Flabbergast looked like it might have been a contender.

3

That's exactly what Nix is, along with some similar languages (Jsonnet, Dhall, Flabbergast,...).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use flabbergast in a sentence?

It's also possible his flabbergast is manufactured and that he was indeed trying to avoid the reporting regulations.

What does flabbergast mean?

(transitive) To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze, confound, or stun, especially in a ludicrous manner.

What part of speech is flabbergast?

flabbergast is commonly used as verb, noun.