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

It has played at Sundance and Berlin and all over the film festival world, at least in part because everyone’s so amazed it actually got finished.

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Each time, we ended the trip amazed that our country rewarded us along the road with far more than we’d hoped.

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“Every time it’s screened at a festival, he gets applause for that scene,” the director says by phone, still sounding a little amazed.

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Meanwhile, Marler noted that being in the final was "way more stressful than playing for England", while Olusoga said he was "completely amazed" to have made it so far.

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They showed the coconut to an amazed American officer.

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