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Synonyms for startled
star·tled

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Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 5 votes

  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

PPDB, the paraphrase database1.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "startled":

    surprised, scared, frightened, caught

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#4024caught
#6106surprised
#9982scared
#20134frightened
#30215startled

How to use startled in a sentence?

  1. 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.

  2. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

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

  3. 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.

  4. Kevin Moore:

    He kind of startled me, he says,' Well, what are you doing here ?'.

  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.


Translations for startled

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  • مذهولArabic
  • erschrockenGerman
  • مبهوتPersian
  • säikähtänyt, pelästynyt, kauhuissaanFinnish
  • effarouché, surprisFrench
  • चौंकाHindi
  • forskrekketNorwegian
  • поражённый, испугать, потрясённый, испуганный, напуганный, шокированныйRussian
  • திடுக்கிட்டதுTamil
  • چونکاUrdu
  • giật mìnhVietnamese
  • 吃惊Chinese

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