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Synonyms for startled
star·tled
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Princeton's WordNet
startledadjective
excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement
"students startled by the teacher's quiet return"; "the sudden fluttering of the startled pigeons"; "her startled expression"
Antonyms:
not surprised, unsurprised
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List of paraphrases for "startled":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4024 | caught | |
#6106 | surprised | |
#9982 | scared | |
#20134 | frightened | |
#30215 | startled |
How to use startled in a sentence?
I only saw one person, he sort of snapped up, stood up, and turned around. He looked startled. We made eye contact.
He sort of snapped up, stood up and turned around, and he looked startled, and then I just didn't think anything of it and rode off.
Sometimes I get startled by people who magically appear at my side, this is my life now.
I was pretty startled and frightened, i just hid. I looked out the window again when it got quiet. Because I wasn’t sure what happened.
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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