DUMFOUNDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dumfounded mean? 

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

1. as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUMFOUNDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise

Synonyms:

dumbfounded; dumbstricken; dumbstruck; dumfounded; flabbergasted; stupefied; thunderstruck

Context example:

was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

This always dumfounded and silenced her.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Later, he was dumfounded to learn from various little happenings not only that Olney did not care for Ruth, but that he had a positive dislike for her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The car dashed on, leaving the flurry of combat far behind, and its dumfounded passengers never dreamed that the quiet young man and the pretty working-girl sitting in the corner on the outside seat had been the cause of the row.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A stream of short stories flowed from his pen, and he branched out into the easier forms of verse—the kind he saw printed in the magazines—though he lost his head and wasted two weeks on a tragedy in blank verse, the swift rejection of which, by half a dozen magazines, dumfounded him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)