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dumbfounded

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verb

variants also dumfounded
past tense of dumbfound

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumbfounded
Adjective
  • Feel that stretch in your shoulders, and in your capacity to still be shocked, six months into Trump’s second term.
    Jena Friedman, New Yorker, 25 June 2025
  • Matlin appears shocked but somewhat timid when Hurt, who presented her with the award after winning the previous year's Best Actor statue for Kiss of the Spider Woman, calls and then signs her name.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Don’t be surprised, however, if the Penguins trade other draft picks for the sake of moving up in the draft or acquiring NHL-ready players.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 17 June 2025
  • At the height of this moment, in 2017, Johnson was surprised to see Roy Moore’s face on her TV.
    Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • For the coveted shoot, the Olympic athlete stunned in a variety of looks.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
  • However, most were stunned at Dawn's story.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Ben Brown is amazed by the energy Crow-Armstrong brings daily.
    Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • Viewers on YouTube were amazed by the poster's finds, as well as the dresser itself.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • And the writer’s astonished eyes answer: yes, that was me.
    Jayson Greene, Time, 17 June 2025
  • Arriving onstage hours late, Stone regaled the astonished crowd with a diatribe against Jerry Goldstein, his manager since the early ’90s.
    Chris Morris, Variety, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • There were also problems connecting to the internet and to phone networks, leaving many bewildered and unable to obtain information.
    Catherine Porter, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Tornado is a bewildered Japanese girl (played by pop singer Kôki) who fights off a horde of white men, thieving gold vagabonds who represent both Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Celtic ancestry.
    Armond White, National Review, 4 June 2025
Adjective
  • Indiana State Police Troopers Amanda Parker and Jaylen Holt-Terry took their plates and sat off to the side Tuesday afternoon, awed by the history in the room.
    Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2025
  • The magazine saw itself as literary but not self-serious; if the stereotypical National Geographic story was a walk through the jungle recounted in hushed, awed tones, its Outside equivalent was a little dustier, wilder, and less reverent.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
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“Dumbfounded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumbfounded. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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