Antonyms for startledstar·tled

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1. startledadjective

   excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement

   "students startled by the teacher's quiet return"; "the sudden fluttering of the startled pigeons"; "her startled expression"

   Antonyms:
   not surprised, unsurprised

How to use startled in a sentence?

1. William Blanchard:

   We were startled, it was a system that had worked well for umpteen years.

2. Robert Collier:

   Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

3. Jerome Rodrigues:

   Sometimes I get startled by people who magically appear at my side, this is my life now.

4. Walter Benjamin:

   Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

5. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

   A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

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