AGHAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aghast mean? 

• AGHAST (adjective)
  The adjective AGHAST has 1 sense:

1. struck with fear, dread, or consternation

  Familiarity information: AGHAST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGHAST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Struck with fear, dread, or consternation

Synonyms:

aghast; appalled; dismayed; shocked

Similar:

afraid (filled with fear or apprehension)

 Context examples 

Aghast, he dropped the manuscript among the chessmen and stared in bewilderment round the room.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Henry Jekyll stood at times aghast before the acts of Edward Hyde; but the situation was apart from ordinary laws, and insidiously relaxed the grasp of conscience.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“You could not have visited me!” she cried, looking aghast.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The hunters, grizzled and gray, and lusty and young, were aghast.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She looked almost aghast under the new idea she was receiving.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The women closed round, whilst I was aghast with horror; but as I looked they disappeared, and with them the dreadful bag.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Well," said he, "if you had committed a murder, and I had told you your crime was discovered, you could scarcely look more aghast."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Ruth was aghast.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We had gained some credit, which we were sorely in need of after the American business; and a few Colonies, which were welcome also for the same reason; but our debt had gone on rising and our consols sinking, until even Pitt stood aghast.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Alas! alas!” cried Alleyne aghast, “you have surely sucked this poison from the man Wicliffe, of whom I have heard such evil things.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)