Palabra de la semana: Flabbergasted

Ampliar el vocabulario de inglés , entre otros, debe ser el objetivo principal de la clases de inglés.

Por lo tanto, en Kelso School of English, queremos regalar a nuestros alumnos y fieles un poco de vocabulario. Cada 15 días, más o menos, propondremos una palabra, pondremos su definición en inglés y algunos ejemplos!

Flabbergasted:

Definiciones:

adjective;

informal overcome with asotnishment; amazed; astounded

graded adjective ;

if you say that you are flabbergasted, you are emphasizing that you are extremely surprised-> Everybody was flabbergasted when I announced I was going to emigrate to Australia.

xample sentences containing ‘Flabbergasted’ in literature

Dear Mr. Johns, I was utterly flabbergasted by your recente letter, with its outrageous suggestion that I had telephoned you ‘at home’. – Isabel Wolff Rescuing Roseo

One hundred and fourty-four flabbergasted hobbits sat back speechless. – J.R.R.Tolkien The Lord of the Rings

It would have been hard to judge who was the most flabbergasted by the situation in which we now found ourselves. – Susan Howatch Absolute truths

Sinónimos: amazed, astonished, stunned, shocked blown away

Similar words: astonished, amazed, stunned, overcome, overwhelmed, staggered, astounded, dazed, confounded, disconcerted, speechless, bowled over (informal) gobsmacked (British) (slang), dumbfounded, nonplussed, lost for words, stuck dumb, abashed, rendered speechless