Antonyms for dumbfoundeddumb·found·ed

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1. dumbfoundedadjective

   Synonyms:
   surprised, shocked, stunned, speechless, astonished, flabbergasted, confounded, astounded, perplexed, amazed

2. dumbfoundedadjective

   shocked and speechless.

   Synonyms:
   stunned, amazed, speechless, flabbergasted, confounded, astounded, shocked, astonished, surprised, perplexed

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 3 votes

1. dumbfounded, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck, dumbstruck, dumbstrickenadjective

   as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise

   "a circle of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accident"; "the flabbergasted aldermen were speechless"; "was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion"

   Antonyms:
   unsurprised, not surprised

   Synonyms:
   thunderstruck, stupefied, flabbergasted, dumfounded, stupid(p), stunned, dazed, dumbstricken, dumbstruck

How to use dumbfounded in a sentence?

1. Leo Rosten:

   I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

2. Charles Koch:

   It’s beneath the president, the dignity of the president, to be doing that, i was really dumbfounded. ... We expect that with Harry Reid, but I didn’t expect that from the president.

3. Karoly Fonyo:

   Naturally we expect a legal procedure, both of those two (Simon and Dederick) had prior knowledge of (my) acquisition (when they sold TV2 to Vajna). I am as dumbfounded as anyone.

4. Leo Rosten:

   I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe

5. Freya Harrison:

   I still can't quite believe how well this 1,000-year-old antibiotic actually seems to be working, when we got the first results we were just utterly dumbfounded. We did not see this coming at all.

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