Definitions for SURPRISED
sur·prised

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1. surprisedadjective

   taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment

   "surprised by her student's ingenuity"; "surprised that he remembered my name"; "a surprised expression"

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1. surprisedadjective

   Caused to feel surprise, amazement or wonder, or showing an emotion due to an unexpected event.

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1. surprised

   Surprise (pronunciation ) is a brief mental and physiological state, a startle response experienced by animals and humans as the result of an unexpected event. Surprise can have any valence; that is, it can be neutral/moderate, pleasant, unpleasant, positive, or negative. Surprise can occur in varying levels of intensity ranging from very-surprised, which may induce the fight-or-flight response, or little-surprise that elicits a less intense response to the stimuli.

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1. surprised

   Surprised refers to an emotional state or reaction caused by an unexpected or sudden event, information, or circumstance. This reaction may include feelings of astonishment, shock or disbelief and can often involve physical responses such as widening of the eyes or a gasp. The cause of surprise can be positive, negative, or neutral and is typically something that was not anticipated or predicted.

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1. Surprised

   of Surprise

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'SURPRISED' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2347

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'SURPRISED' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1426

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'SURPRISED' in Adjectives Frequency: #285

How to pronounce SURPRISED?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

How to say SURPRISED in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of SURPRISED in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of SURPRISED in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of SURPRISED in a Sentence

1. Charlotte Melcher:

   The mask market was saturated, there was Covid exhaustion and I was surprised I wasn't getting the traction I expected.

2. Charles Branas:

   More specifically, the rate of mass shootings in permissive states appears to be increasing since 2010, while the rate in restrictive states appears to be decreasing, we were somewhat surprised most by the recent, growing divergence in the rates of mass shootings between permissive and restrictive states.

3. Susan Collins:

   It seems to me the prosecution built a pretty strong case so I'm not really surprised at those convictions.

4. Jim Diffley:

   As an economist watching the economy, we're somewhat surprised that wages pressures have been so muted to this point, we do expect an acceleration and in fact think it necessary to continue the recovery.

5. Matthew J. Perry:

   I wasn't terribly surprised. It wasn't unusual at that time for Jewish families to disappear. I thought, 'Maybe they got away,'

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=SURPRISED
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Surprised
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprised
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/SURPRISED