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thunderstruck
/ ˈθʌndəˌstrʌk; ˈθʌndəˌstrɪkən /
adjective
- completely taken aback; amazed or shocked
- rare.struck by lightning
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Word History and Origins
Origin of thunderstruck1
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Example Sentences
New York University was not thunderstruck by the news that Sir Harold Acton had left the school his estate when he died in 1994.
Mrs. Ducksmith, who had sat with overwhelmed head in her hands, started bolt upright, and looked at him like one thunderstruck.
They seemed confounded and thunderstruck by their sentence, and the painful accessories of its publicity.
Howell Gruffydd, who had been as thunderstruck as the rest of them, now affected to take a jocular view of the matter.
When I got ready to put up my location notice, I was thunderstruck to find that I had lost my bundle of blanks.
Of them all Frank Merriwell was the only one who did not seem thunderstruck.
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