AMAZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amazed mean? 

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

1. filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMAZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock

Synonyms:

amazed; astonied; astonished; astounded; stunned

Context example:

stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses

Similar:

surprised (taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment)

 Context examples 

There was a passionate dejection in his manner that quite amazed me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I did not succeed in this so well as in the former; but after two or three farther trials, I had better fortune; and they both appeared amazed at my capacity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Beth looked so amazed at the idea that Jo smiled in spite of her pain, and added softly, Then you didn't, dearie?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Octopuses have amazed scientists for centuries —these underwater creatures can open jars, recognize faces and now a stunning video has suggested that they have dreams.

(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"Ruth!" he said, amazed and bewildered.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I started, for it amazed me that I had not seen him, since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Absolutely!” said I. “And now that you have explained it, I confess that I am as amazed as before.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You may be amazed how highly productive you can be.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle the zeal of his deliverer by promises of reward and wealth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She became a subscriber; amazed at being anything in propria persona, amazed at her own doings in every way, to be a renter, a chuser of books!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)