9 definitions found for Aghast

aghast adj 1: struck with fear, dread, or consternation [syn: aghast(p), appalled, dismayed, shocked]

aghast
adj. (usu. predic.; often foll. by at) filled with dismay or consternation.
Etymology: ME, past part. of obs. agast, gast frighten: see GHASTLY

aghast If you are aghast, you are filled with horror and surprise. (FORMAL) She watched aghast as his life flowed away... ADJ: ADJ after v, v-link ADJ, oft ADJ at n, ADJ n

aghast əˈɡɑ:st adj. (usu. predic.; often foll. by at) filled with dismay or consternation. [ME, past part. of obs. agast, gast frighten: see GHASTLY]

Agast A*gast" or Aghast A*ghast", v. t. To affright; to terrify. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Spenser.

Aghast A*ghast", a & p. p. [OE. agast, agasted, p. p. of agasten to terrify, fr. AS. pref. [=a]- (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + g?stan to terrify, torment: cf. Goth. usgaisjan to terrify, primitively to fix, to root to the spot with terror; akin to L. haerere to stick fast, cling. See Gaze, Hesitate.] Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. --Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. --Macaulay.

Aghast A*ghast", v. t. See Agast, v. t. [Obs.]

aghast a. 1. Horror-struck, dismayed, horrified, appalled, terrified, frightened, panic-stricken, struck with horror. 2. Amazed, astounded, startled, astonished, dumfoundered, dumfounded (colloq.), thunderstruck.

90 Moby Thesaurus words for "aghast": afraid, agape, agog, all agog, amazed, anxious, appalled, ashen, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestricken, awestruck, beguiled, bewildered, bewitched, blanched, breathless, captivated, confounded, cowed, deadly pale, dismayed, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, fearful, flabbergasted, frightened, frozen, gaping, gauping, gazing, gray with fear, horrified, horror-struck, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of, intimidated, lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, pale as death, pallid, paralyzed, petrified, popeyed, puzzled, rapt in wonder, scared, scared stiff, scared to death, scary, shocked, spellbound, staggered, staring, startled, stunned, stupefied, surprised, taken aback, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled, thunderstruck, under a charm, undone, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering