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Surprised definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SURPRI'SED, pp. Come upon or taken unawares; struck with something novel or unexpected.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment; "surprised by her student's ingenuity"; "surprised that he remembered my name"; "a surprised expression" [ant: not surprised, unsurprised]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Surprise Sur*prise", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surprised; p. pr. & vb. n. Surprising.] [From Surprise, n.: cf. F. surprendre, p. p. surpris.] 1. To come or fall suddenly and unexpectedly; to take unawares; to seize or capture by unexpected attack. Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. --Isa. xxxiii. 14. The castle of Macduff I will surprise. --Shak. Who can speak The mingled passions that surprised his heart? --Thomson. 2. To strike with wonder, astonishment, or confusion, by something sudden, unexpected, or remarkable; to confound; as, his conduct surprised me. I am surprised with an uncouth fear. --Shak. Up he starts, Discovered and surprised. --Milton. 3. To lead (one) to do suddenly and without forethought; to bring (one) into some unexpected state; -- with into; as, to be surprised into an indiscretion; to be surprised into generosity. 4. To hold possession of; to hold. [Obs.] Not with me, That in my hands surprise the sovereignity. --J. Webster. Syn: See Astonish.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you are surprised at something, you have a feeling of surprise, because it is unexpected or unusual. This lady was genuinely surprised at what happened to her pet... Chang seemed surprised to find the big living-room empty... ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ at/by n, ADJ to-inf, ADJ that/how 2. see also surprise

Moby Thesaurus

ad-lib, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck, beguiled, bewildered, bewitched, breathless, captivated, caught napping, caught off balance, caught short, confounded, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, extemporaneous, extemporized, fascinated, flabbergasted, gaping, gauping, gazing, haphazard, hasty, hypnotized, impromptu, improvised, in awe, in awe of, lost in wonder, makeshift, marveling, mesmerized, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, popeyed, precipitate, puzzled, rapt in wonder, rough-and-ready, snap, spellbound, staggered, staring, struck with surprise, stupefied, taken aback, taken by surprise, taken unawares, thunderstruck, tripped up, unarranged, unbegun, unconcocted, uncontrived, undeliberated, under a charm, undevised, unhatched, unmade, unmanufactured, unorganized, unprepared, unprimed, unready, unstudied, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering