amazed

[uh-meyzd]

adjective

1. greatly surprised; astounded; suddenly filled with wonder.

   The magician made the dove disappear before our amazed eyes.

Other Word Forms

• amazedly adverb
• amazedness noun
• unamazed adjective
• unamazedly adverb
• unamazedness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of amazed¹

First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English; amaze + -ed ²

Example Sentences

“Not too many people know about it; when they know, they’re amazed.”

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They remembered the car and were amazed at how beautiful it looked.

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Now the relationship is behind her, Emma says she is amazed she got through it.

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Herzog was amazed at the quality of the poems, calling them “better than almost anything I’ve read in terms of poetry in the last 20 or 30 years.”

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"I'm actually amazed because they are big, happy, bushy plants," she says, warning me not to fall over when we step into the calf-deep water.

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Related Words

• astonished 
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• confused 
• dismayed 
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• speechless 
• startled 
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