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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of surprise |
| Synonyms: | admiration, astonishment, awe, bewilderment, confoundment, confusion, marvel, one for the books, perplexity, shock, something else, stopper, stunner, stupefaction, wonder, wonderment |
| Antonyms: | calmness, composure, cool, coolness, indifference, preparation |
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| Main Entry: | consternation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dismay, distress |
| Synonyms: | alarm, amazement, anxiety, awe, bewilderment, confusion, distraction, dread, fear, fright, horror, muddle, muddlement, panic, perplexity, shock, stupefaction, terror, trepidation, trepidity, wonder |
| Antonyms: | calm, composure, happiness, peacefulness, tranquility |
| Main Entry: | stupor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daze, unconsciousness |
| Synonyms: | amazement, anesthesia, apathy, asphyxia, bewilderment, coma, dullness, fainting, hebetude, hypnosis, inertia, inertness, insensibility, languor, lassitude, lethargy, narcosis, numbness, petrifaction, sleep, slumber, somnolence, sopor, stupefaction, suspended animation, swoon, swooning, torpor, trance |
| Antonyms: | consciousness, sensibility |
| Main Entry: | surprise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something amazing; state of amazement |
| Synonyms: | abruptness, amazement, astonishment, astoundment, attack, awe, bewilderment, bombshell, consternation, curiosity, curveball, disappointment, disillusion, epiphany, eureka, eye-opener, fortune, godsend, incredulity, jolt*, kick*, marvel, miracle, miscalculation, phenomenon, portent, precipitance, precipitation, precipitousness, prodigy, rarity, revelation, shock, start, stupefaction, suddenness, thunderbolt, unexpected, unforeseen, whammy, wonder, wonderment |
| Notes: | amaze once meant 'alarm, terrify' but now means 'astonish'; surprise means 'meet with suddenly or without warning' |
| Antonyms: | expectation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wonderment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | astonishment |
| Synonyms: | amazement, astoundment, awe, bewilderment, curiosity, fascination, marvel, shock, stunner, surprise, wonder |
| Main Entry: | incredulity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disbelief |
| Synonyms: | amazement, doubt, skepticism, unbelief, wonder |
| Main Entry: | stupefaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | astonishment |
| Synonyms: | amazement, bewilderment, perplexity, stupor, surprise, wonder, wonderment |
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| Main Entry: | astonishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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abracadabrant, agape, aghast, all agog, awe, consterned, donnered, extonious, frappant, inconceivable, incredible, indescribable, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, inimaginable, like a duck in thunder, lost in amazement, lost in astonishment, lost in wonder, marvelous, miraculous, mirandous, monstrous, moon, nefandous, open, passing strange, planet, selcouth, spell, strange, striking, stupendous, surprised, surprising, thunderstruck, unable to believe one's senses, unexpected, unheard of, unimaginable, unspeakable, unutterable, wonder, wonderful
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| Main Entry: | surprise |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
anoetic, blutterbunged, ferly, gloppened, imprevisible, inattentive, inopinate, mirific, serendipitous, startling, struck, sudden, surprised, unanticipated, unaware, unexpected, unforeseen, unwarned
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