dumfoundered
adjective
Roget 879:
humble,
lowly,
meek;
modest
etc.
881;
humble minded,
sober-minded;
unoffended†;
submissive
etc.
725;
servile,
etc.
886.
condescending;
affable
etc.
(courteous)
891.
humbled
etc.
v.;
bowed down,
resigned;
abashed,
ashamed,
dashed;
out of countenance;
down in the mouth;
down on one's knees,
down on one's marrowbones,
down on one's uppers;
humbled in the dust,
browbeaten;
chapfallen†,
crestfallen;
dumfoundered†.
flabbergasted.
shorn of one's glory
etc.
(disrepute)
874.
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dumfounder
verb
Roget 509:
be disappointed;
look blank,
look blue;
look aghast,
stand aghast
etc.
(wonder)
870;
find to one's cost;
laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth;
find one a false prophet.
not realize one's hope,
not realize one's expectation.
[cause to be disappointed]
disappoint;
frustrate,
discomfit,
crush,
defeat
(failure)
732;
crush one's hope,
dash one's hope,
balk one's hope,
disappoint one's hope,
blight one's hope,
falsify one's hope,
defeat one's hope,
discourage;
balk,
jilt,
bilk;
play one false,
play a trick;
dash the cup from the lips,
tantalize;
dumfound,
dumbfound,
dumbfounder,
dumfounder
(astonish)
870.
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Roget 581:
keep silence
etc.
585;
speak low,
speak softly;
whisper
etc.
(faintness)
405.
silence;
render mute,
render silent;
muzzle,
muffle,
suppress,
smother,
gag,
strike dumb,
dumfounder;
drown the voice,
put to silence,
stop one's mouth,
cut one short.
stick in the throat.
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Roget 870:
wonder,
marvel,
admire;
be surprised
etc.
adj.;
start;
stare;
open one's eyes,
rub one's eyes,
turn up one's eyes;
gloar†;
gape,
open one's mouth,
hold one's breath;
look aghast,
stand aghast,
stand agog;
look blank
etc.
(disappointment)
509;
tombe des nues [Fr.];
not believe one's eyes,
not believe one's ears,
not believe one's senses.
not be able to account for
etc.
(unintelligible)
519;
not know whether one stands on one's head or one's not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels.
surprise,
astonish,
amaze,
astound;
dumfound,
dumfounder;
startle,
dazzle;
daze;
strike,
strike with wonder,
strike with awe;
electrify;
stun,
stupefy,
petrify,
confound,
bewilder,
flabbergast,
stagger,
throw on one's beam ends,
fascinate,
turn the head,
take away one's breath,
strike dumb;
make one's hair stand on end,
make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth;
make one stare.
take by surprise
etc.
(be unexpected)
508.
be wonderful
etc.
adj.;
beggar description,
beggar the imagination,
baffle description;
stagger belief.
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