Aghast

Definition: Aghast

Aghast

Adjective

1. Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.

Date "aghast" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Aghast Frightened, as by a ghost; from Anglo-Saxon gást, a ghost. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Aghast

Synonyms: aghast(p) (adj), appalled (adj), dismayed (adj), shocked (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disappointment	Verb: be disappointed; look blank, look blue; look aghast, stand aghast; (wonder); find to one's cost; laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth; find one a false prophet.
	Adjective: disappointed; Verb: disconcerted, aghast; disgruntled; out of one's reckoning.
Fear	Grow pale, turn pale; blench, stand aghast; not dare to say one's soul is one's own.
	Aghast; awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic-stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-struck; frightened to death, white as a sheet; pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes; breathless, in hysterics.
Wonder	Verb: wonder, marvel, admire; be surprised; Adjective: start; stare; open one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes; gloar; gape, open one's mouth, hold one's breath; look aghast, stand aghast, stand agog; look blank; (disappointment); tombe des nues; not believe one's eyes, not believe one's ears, not believe one's senses.
	Adjective: surprised; Verb: aghast, all agog, breathless, agape; open-mouthed; awestruck, thunderstruck, moonstruck, planet-struck; spellbound; lost in amazement, lost in wonder, lost in astonishment; struck all of a heap, unable to believe one's senses, like a duck ion thunder.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Aghast

English words defined with "aghast": Agast ♦ Gast, Ghast, Ghastful. (references)

Etymologies containing "aghast": Agazed ♦ flabbergast. (references)

Domain	Usage
Tongue Twisters	Gertie's great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's grammar. (references; author: unknown)
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Play	Caption
	Hot under the collar; anxious; afraid; aghast; antsy; apprehensive; basket case; bugged; butterflies; careful; choked; clutched; concerned; disquieted; distressed; disturbed; dreading; fearful; fidgety; fretful; hacked; hyper; in suspense; jittery; jumpy.
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Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded	Carroll, Lewis	Lady Muriel looked aghast.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The portress stood aghast.
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"Aghast" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aghast" is used about 170 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	170	23,898

Expression using "aghast": stand aghast. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "aghast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i tmerruar, i shtangur (dumb, dumbfounded, fascinated, flabbergasted, frozen), i prekur (affected, hurt, moved, resentful, sore, stricken, touchable, touched). (various references)

Arabic		‏مذعور (frightened, horrified, panic stricken, terrified). (various references)

Bulgarian		ужасено (appallingly), ужасен (appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), слисан (flabbergasted, thunderstruck, wonder struck), втрещен, поразен (defeated, flabbergasted, smitten). (various references)

Chinese		�"呆. (various references)

Czech		zdìšený (funky, horror-struck), zdìšen, užaslý (wonder struck). (various references)

Dutch		verstomd (abashed, taken aback, upset), verslagen (abashed, taken aback, upset), verbluft (abashed, perplexed, taken aback, upset), ontzet (startled), onthutst (abashed, taken aback, upset), ontdaan (abashed, taken aback, upset), geschrokken (startled). (various references)

Farsi		مات (Dumbstruck, Opaque, Quizzical), وحشت زده . (various references)

French		atterré, stupéfait, frappé d'horreur. (various references)

German		entgeistert (dumbfounded, flabbergast, flabbergasted, thunderstruck), bestürzt (dismayed, distraught, filled with consternation, perplexed, shocked, upset). (various references)

Greek		έντρομοσ (frightened, scary), ενεόσ, εμβρόντητοσ (dazed, stunned). (various references)

Hebrew		מוכ�" ת�"�"מ�" (dazed, stunned, stupefied). (various references)

Hungarian		megrémít (alarm, appall, dismay, horrify, scare, terrify, to alarm, to appal, to appall, to dismay, to fright, to shock), megrémült (afeard, dumbfounded, panic stricken, panic-stricken, panic-struck, scared), megijeszt (affright, daunt, frighten, give one the creeps, intimidate, scare, sit up, startle, terrify, to afear, to alarm, to cow, to daunt, to dismay, to fright, to frighten, to haze, to spook, to terrify), megdöbbent (appall, astonish, astound, dismay, dumbfound, dumbfounded, flabbergast, flummox, stupefied, take aback, threw, thrown, thunderstruck, to appal, to appall, to dismay, to dumbfound, to dumfound, to flabbergast, to flummox, to flurry, to petrify, to stupefy, to throw). (various references)

Indonesian		terperanjat. (various references)

Italian		stupefatto (wondering), sbalordito (amazed, astounds, perplexed, stumps, thunderstruck), inorridito. (various references)

Manx		fo aggle (alarmed, awe-stricken, terror-stricken), atchimit (awe-stricken). (various references)

Pig Latin		aghastay

Portuguese		aterrado (awestruck), horrorizado. (various references)

Romanian		înspãimântat (afeard, frightened, scared, terrified), îngrozit (frightened, horrified, terrified). (various references)

Russian		ошеломленный (bemused, dizzy, flabbergasted, perplexed, spellbound, staggering, thunderstruck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zbunjen (abashed, ablush, befuddled, bewildered, confounded, confused, distraught, embarrassed, loss: at a loss, nonplussed, puzzled, quizzical), užasnuto, užasnut (horrified), prestravljen (terrified). (various references)

Spanish		espantado (frightened, scared, startled). (various references)

Swedish		bestört (amazed, dismayed, perplexed). (various references)

Turkish		donakalmış (frozen, numb, struck dumb), ödü patlamış, çok korkmuş (terrified). (various references)

Ukranian		уражений жахом, охоплений страхом, приголомшений (bemused, dumbfounded, mused, perplexed, shocked, spellbound, thunderstruck). (various references)

Vietnamese		kinh ngạc; kinh hãi; kinh ho� ng; thất kinh. (various references)

Welsh		syn (amazed, astonishing, blank, surprising), brawychedig. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Aghast" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adhast, afsat, Agah, agahst, Agastya, agfas, aghas, aghest, aghhast, Aghia, a'ghlas, Aghras, agmas, ahas, ahat, ahst, Aihits, ighest, Nagast. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "aghast" (pronounced uga"st)
4	-g a" s t	gassed, Gast.
3	-a" s t	amassed, assed, Bast, blast, cast, caste, classed, fast, glassed, grassed, harassed, hast, lambaste, last, massed, mast, miscast, passed, past, precast, recast, surpassed, unsurpassed, vast.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-g-h-s-t"
	-1 letter: aghas, ghast, ghats.
	-2 letters: aahs, agas, agha, gash, gast, gats, ghat, hags, hast, hats, saga, shag, shat, stag, tags.
	-3 letters: aah, aas, aga, aha, ash, gas, gat, hag, has, hat, sag, sat, sha, tag, tas.
	-4 letters: aa, ag, ah, as, at, ha, sh, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-g-h-s-t"
	+2 letters: ataghans, hagadist, hangtags, thanages.
	+3 letters: chantages, hagadists, haggadist, headgates, stagehand, straphang, yataghans.
	+4 letters: agapanthus, asphalting, autographs, haggadists, megadeaths, satyagraha, stagecoach, stagehands, straphangs.
	+5 letters: arthralgias, draughtsman, haggadistic, halogenates, handfasting, mastheading, pantographs, phantasying, satyagrahas, straightway, straphanger, tragacanths.
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