flabbergastingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "It was a good date but the food at the restaurant was so flabbergastingly excellent I could barely think of anything else to talk about."
- "He had said he would clean his room a thousand times before, but this time he actually did it, and flabbergastingly well too."
- "1922, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken. The smart set: a magazine of cleverness, Volume 69. Ess Ess Pub. Co. page 49. (There) must be sympathy in the back parlor if it is to get its message across, and that this flabbergastingly important message... is as follows:..."
- "The critical wonderment over the at times curious unevenness of Monckton Hoffe's dramatic writing, over the startlingly good suddenly crossed with the flabbergastingly bad, and vice versa..."
- "As I write, the flabbergastingly fecund David Crystal has just published another book in the tradition, The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left."
Etymology
From flabbergasting + -ly.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: flabbergasting
- Suffix: -ly
Inflected Forms
more flabbergastingly (comparative)
most flabbergastingly (superlative)