thunderstricken
/ˈθʌndəɹˌstɹɪkən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
adj
Example Sentences
- "1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 104, […] I sawe straight, Maiesty (sitting in the throne of Beautie) draw foorth such a sworde of iust disdaine, that I remayned as a man thunder-striken; not daring, no not able, to beholde that power."
- "The Doctor was so thunderstricken, that he pocketed the money without uttering a word."
- "If some tremendous apparition from the world of shadows had suddenly presented itself before him, Ralph Nickleby could not have been more thunder-stricken than he was by this surprise."
- "At the first shock, no token, in heaven or on earth, had excited attention; but at the sudden movement, and at the aspect of destruction, an overwhelming terror seized on the general mind, insomuch, that the instinct of self-preservation was suspended, and men remained thunderstricken and immoveable."
- "The aghast and thunderstricken philosophers remained gazing at each other for a moment. ""
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more thunderstricken (comparative)
most thunderstricken (superlative)