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Definition: Amazed |
AmazedAdjective1. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock; "an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation"; "I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral"; "astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing"; "stood in stunned silence"; "stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "amazed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: AmazedSynonyms: astonied (adj), astonished (adj), astounded (adj), stunned (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Amazed |
| English words defined with "amazed": Agazed, Amazedness, apparition, astonied, astonished, astounded ♦ commotion ♦ disruption, disturbance ♦ flutter ♦ hurly burly ♦ marvel ♦ -ment ♦ stir, stunned ♦ to-do, turmoil ♦ wonder. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "amazed": ART ♦ -art ♦ DPer ♦ IMPROBABILITY ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm fed up saving your ass. I'm amazed you made it past puberty (The Rock; writing credit: Douglas Cook.) I'm just amazed he allowed any of your posse to live (First Blood; writing credit: David Morrell; Michael Kozoll) When I first knew him, your father was already a great pilot, but I was amazed how strongly the Force was with him. I took it upon myself to train him as a Jedi (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan) Son, you'd be amazed at the hundreds of satisfied students I've matriculated over the last 50 years (The Flim-Flam Man; writing credit: Guy Owen; William Rose) | |
Lyrics | Baby I'm amazed by you. (Amazed; performing artist: LONESTAR) And we are so amazed we're crippled and we're dazed (Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny); performing artist: Elton John) Now you're amazed by the VIP posse (Play that funky music; performing artist: Vanilla Ice) | |
Song Titles | Amazed (performing artist: Lonestar) | |
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| "Overpowered by the sky" by Nathan Sudds Commentary: "Powerlines overhead in a field, north Ajax, Ontario, Canada - scenes like this cause me to be amazed by God's creation :) Hope someone can use it, resolution isn't as good as I would have liked <br> <br>Shot on a Canon S10 digital cam (2.0" |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Aristophanes | I am amazed that anyone who has made a fortune should send for his friends. |
David Bowie | I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously. |
Iris Murdoch | Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. |
Walter Bagehot | A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | This strangers stand amazed at, and every one must confess needs a remedy; tho' most think it hard to find one, because the constitution of the legislative being the original and supreme act of the society, antecedent to all positive laws in it, and depending wholly on the people, no inferior power can alter it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Monsieur Madeleine, amazed, opened his mouth |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He looked over secretly to see whether Joad was interested or amazed. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | About all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army in the midst of peace, and among a free people |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Although many would never admit it, the French generally find the Americans friendly, appreciate the American way of life, and are rarely disappointed by their first trip to the U.S. they are generally amazed by the size of the country, as the distances are huge compared to those in the European countries. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J. One day a wag -- what would the wretch be at? -- Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! Straight arose Fantastic priests and postulants (with shows, And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns, And disputations dire that lamed their limbs) To serve his temple and maintain the fires, Expound the law, manipulate the wires. Amazed, the populace that rites attend, Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend, And, inly edified to learn that two Half-hairs joined so and so (as Art can do) Have sweeter values and a grace more fit Than Nature's hairs that never have been split, Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts, And sell their garments to support the priests. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dean Cain | This artist is known for creating the most amazing visual illusions. Because believe it or not, what looks like a basketball is actually a belly. Finally able to take a good look at her new bedazzling belly, this future mom is amazed of the results. |
Dennis Miller | What lifts my ass off the can is when people who have smoked for fifty years are amazed when they get lung cancer. |
Phil McGraw | Well, first off, you'd be amazed how much I agree with what they say sometimes, because sometimes there are problems that are terribly, terribly complex. So I would embrace their ideology in that regard many times. |
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| "Amazed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 48.62% of the time. "Amazed" is used about 686 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) | 48.62% | 334 | 15,701 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 38.43% | 264 | 18,152 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 12.37% | 85 | 35,870 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.58% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 686 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "amazed": be amazed ♦ be amazed at ♦ be amazed at smth.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "amazed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i habitur (astonished, wonder-stricken), i çuditur (astonished, object, surprised, wonder struck). (various references) | |
Arabic | مندهش (astonished, astounding, flabbergasted, startled, surprised), مذهول (astonished, flabbergasted, stunned), مشدوه (astonished, astounded, flabbergasted, puzzled, shocked, startled, stunned, thunderstruck, wonder struck). (various references) | |
Chinese | 惊奇 (Amaze, Amazing, Marveled, Marveling, surprise, surprised, surprising). (various references) | |
Finnish | hölmistyä (be amazed), hämmästyä (be amazed, be astonished, be surprised, be taken aback), ällistyä (be amazed, be dumbfounded, be taken aback). (various references) | |
French | abasourdirent, abasourdie, abasourdi, abasourdîmes. (various references) | |
German | erstaunt (aback, amazedly, astonished, astonishes, staggered, wonderingly), verblüffte (astounded, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, graveled, nonplussed). (various references) | |
Greek | έκθαμβοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מופתע (astonished, startled, surprised, taken aback), תמה (astonished, bewildered, surprised). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ámuló. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tercengang (agape, astonished, dumb founded, flabbergasted, stupefied, taken aback, wondering), kagum (astonished, wonder), cengang (astonished). (various references) | |
Italian | stupito (astonished), sbalordito (aghast, astounds, perplexed, stumps, thunderstruck), meravigliato. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 仰天 (being amazed, being horrified, being taken aback). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎょうてん (being amazed, being horrified, being taken aback, dawn), おそれいる (to be amazed, to be defeated, to be disconcerted, to be filled with awe, to be grateful, to be sorry, to be surprised, to confess guilt, to feel small), おどろきいる (to be amazed, to be astonished), きっきょう (astonishment, be amazed, be frightened, be surprised, fortune, sunshine and shadow), びっくり (astonishment, be amazed, be frightened, be surprised), あきれがお (amazed or stunned expression), あきれかえる (to be utterly amazed), あきれる (to be amazed, to be shocked). (various references) | |
Korean | 깜짝 놀라게 하는. (various references) | |
Manx | thanvanit (thunderstruck). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amazeday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | atônito (astonished, cheap, mazy, speechless), assombrado (thunderstruck), maravilhado, de boca aberta (open-mouthed, undecked). (various references) | |
Romanian | uluit (astonished, astounded, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, flurried, mused, perplex, thunder-struck), consternat (astounded, dismayed, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, flummoxed, horrified), buimac (astounded, dismayed, dizzy, dumb, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, flummoxed, horrified). (various references) | |
Russian | изумлять изумленный, изумленный (flabbergasted, goggle, starstruck, wonder-struck). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zadivljen, začuđen (astonished, wonder-stricken). (various references) | |
Spanish | asombrado (astonished, flabbergasted). (various references) | |
Swedish | häpen (astonished, flabbergasted), förvånad (astonished), bestört (aghast, dismayed, perplexed). (various references) | |
Turkish | hayret etmiş (open mouthed), şaşırmış (all at sea, all out, at a loss, baffled, bewildered, blank, confounded, confused, disoriented, distracted, lost, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzled, surprised, taken aback, twisted, wondering). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уражений (affected, stricken, wounded), здивований (baffled, surprised, wonder struck, wonder-stricken). (various references) | |
Welsh | syn (aghast, astonishing, blank, surprising). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | stupidus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 12, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai existanto panteV oi ocloi kai elegon mhti outoV estin o uioV dabid |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et stupebant omnes turbae et dicebant numquid hic est Filius David |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & þa menigeo ealle wundredon & cwæðen. Cweþe we ys þes dauiðes sune. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And al the puple wondride, and seide, Whether this be the sone of Dauid? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And all the people were amased and sayde: Ys not this that sonne of David? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And all the people were surprised and said, Is not this the Son of David? |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 12, Verse 23 |
| Cebuano | Ug nahibulong ang tanang mga tawo ug nanag-ingon, "Mao na ba kaha kini ang Anak ni David?" |
| Chinese | 眾 人 都 驚 奇 、 說 、 這 不 是 大 衛 的 子 孫 麼 。 |
| Croatian | I sve ono mnoštvo zapanjeno govoraše: "Da ovo nije Sin Davidov?" |
| Danish | Og alle Skarerne forfærdedes og sagde: "Mon denne skulde være Davids Søn?" |
| Dutch | En al de scharen ontzetten zich, en zeiden: Is niet Deze de Zoon van David? |
| Finnish | Ja kaikki kansa hämmästyi ja sanoi: "Eiköhän tämä ole Daavidin poika?" |
| French | Toute la foule étonnée disait: N`est-ce point là le Fils de David? |
| German | Und alles Volk entsetzte sich und sprach: Ist dieser nicht Davids Sohn? |
| Haitian Creole | Foul moun yo te sezi anpil. Yo t'ap di: Nou pa kwè se pitit David la sa? |
| Hungarian | És elálmélkodék az egész sokaság, és monda: Vajjon nem ez-é Dávidnak ama Fia? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Semua orang heran dan berkata, "Mungkinkah Dia ini Anak Daud yang dijanjikan itu?" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka tercengang-cenganglah orang banyak itu serta berkata, "Bukankah Ia ini Anak Daud?" |
| Italian | E tutta la folla era sbalordita e diceva: «Non è forse costui il figlio di Davide?». |
| Korean | 무 리 가 다 놀 라 가 로 되 ` 이 는 다 윗 의 자 손 이 아 니 냐' 하 니 |
| Manx Gaelic | As ghow ooilley yn pobble yindys, as dooyrt ad, Nagh nee shoh mac Ghavid? |
| Maori | A ka ohomauri te mano katoa, ka mea, Ehara ianei tenei i te Tama a Rawiri? |
| Norwegian | Og alt folket blev ute av sig selv av forundring og sa: Mon dette skulde være Davids sønn? |
| Portuguese | E toda a multidão, maravilhada, dizia: É este, porventura, o Filho de Davi? |
| Rumanian | Toate noroadele, mirate, ziceau: ,,Nu cumva este acesta Fiul lui David?`` |
| Shuar | Nuna Wáinkiar shuar shiir Enentáimprar tiarmiayi "¿Tawitia Uchirí pampanku iniannamu uwemtikkiartin Tátinia Nuáshit?" |
| Swahili | Umati wote wa watu ulishangaa ukasema, "Je, huenda ikawa huyu ndiye Mwana wa Daudi?" |
| Swedish | Och allt folket uppfylldes av häpnad och sade: "Månne icke denne är Davids son?" |
| Uma | Konce-ramo tauna to mpohilo toe, alaa-na momepekune' -ramo, ra'uli': "Meka' Hi'a toi-mi Magau' Topetolo' muli Magau' Daud to rajanci owi-e!" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "amazed": amazedly. (additional references) | |
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"Amazed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aaahed, Aaswdu, acaze, Ajazi, amae, amaise, amase, amased, amaz, amaza, Amazer, ammased, anazi, axmaze, Azazel, Bayazid, damized, maized, mazed, mezed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "amazed" (pronounced umā"zd) |
| 3 | -ā" z d | appraised, blazed, braised, crazed, dazed, fazed, gazed, glazed, grazed, phased, phrased, praised, raised, razed, reappraised, unfazed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-m-z" | |
-1 letter: amaze, mazed. | |
-2 letters: adze, dame, daze, made, maze, mead. | |
-3 letters: adz, ama, dam, mad, mae, med, zed. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, ae, am, de, ed, em, ma, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-m-z" | |
+2 letters: amazedly, diazepam, mazaedia. | |
+3 letters: diazepams, dramatize, mazaedium. | |
+4 letters: anatomized, animalized, aromatized, dramatized, dramatizes, macadamize. | |
+5 letters: automatized, axiomatized, caramelized, macadamized, macadamizes, traumatized. | |
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