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Synonyms for startled
star·tled
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Princeton's WordNet
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
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List of paraphrases for "startled":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4024 | caught | |
#6106 | surprised | |
#9982 | scared | |
#20134 | frightened | |
#30215 | startled |
How to use startled in a sentence?
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.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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.
He kind of startled me, he says,' Well, what are you doing here ?'.
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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