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SURPRISED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment
Example:
a surprised expression
Classified under:
Similar:
amazed; astonied; astonished; astounded; stunned (filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock)
dumbfounded; dumbstricken; dumbstruck; dumfounded; flabbergasted; stupefied; thunderstruck (as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise)
gobsmacked (utterly astounded)
goggle-eyed; openmouthed; popeyed (with eyes or mouth open in surprise)
jiggered ((British informal expletive) surprised)
startled (excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement)
Antonym:
unsurprised (not surprised or expressing surprise)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb surprise
Context examples:
The rate of dust activity surprised Heavens and other scientists.
(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)
Giving over his attempt to determine the shadow, he stepped on deck and started forward, walking with a swiftness and confidence which surprised me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I am glad. Now that they have found that for which they look, we will have rest. But the woman says, 'Let us start. Hurry!' I am surprised.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
When she met him she looked surprised, though it was impossible to help suspecting that she had come for that express purpose.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Again the surprised expression crossed his face.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But it was not the man who surprised me.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She was surprised by a wanton thought that rushed into her mind.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I shall be surprised at least if you ever received a hint of it, for I never did.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
But researchers were surprised to find the opposite to be true.
(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)
Your uncle is as much surprised as I am—and nothing but the belief of your being a party concerned would have allowed him to act as he has done.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
