Definitions for aghast
əˈgæst, əˈgɑstaghast

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. aghast(p), appalled, dismayed, shockedadjective

   struck with fear, dread, or consternation

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. aghastadjective

   Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.

2. Etymology: From agast, agasted, past participle of agasten, from prefix a- (compare with Gothic
   033F
   0343-, German er-, originally meaning "out") + gæstan: compare Gothic
   033F
   0343
   0332
   0330
   0339
   0343
   033E
   0330
   033D; akin to Latin haerere. See gaze, hesitate.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Aghastadjective

   Struck with horrour, as at the sight of a spectre; stupified with terrour. It is generally applied to the external appearance.

   Etymology: either the participle of agaze, (see Agaze.) and then to be written agazed, or agast, or from a and gast, a ghost, which the present orthography favours; perhaps they were originally different words.

   Who sighing sore, as if her heart in twaine
   Had riven been, and all her heart-strings brast,
   With dreary drooping eyne look’d up like one aghast. Edmund Spenser.

   The aged earth aghast,
   With terrour of that blast,
   Shall from the surface to the centre shake. John Milton, Chr. Nat.

   Aghast he wak’d, and, starting from his bed,
   Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o’erspread. John Dryden, Æn.

   I laugh to think how your unshaken Cato
   Will look aghast, while unforeseen destruction
   Pours in upon him thus from every side. Joseph Addison, Cato.

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1. aghast

   Aghast means being filled with shock or horror; greatly dismayed. It typically refers to an intense and unexpected feeling of surprise, fear, or disgust.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Aghastverb

   to affright; to terrify

2. Aghastverb

   see Agast, v. t

3. Aghast

   terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror

4. Etymology: [OE. agast, agasted, p. p. of agasten to terrify, fr. AS. pref. - (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + gstan to terrify, torment: cf. Goth. usgaisjan to terrify, primitively to fix, to root to the spot with terror; akin to L. haerere to stick fast, cling. See Gaze, Hesitate.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Aghast

   a-gast′, adj. stupefied with horror. [Properly agast; M. E. agasten, to terrify; A.S. intens. pfx. á-, and gæstan, to terrify. The primary notion of the root gæs- (Goth. gais-) is to fix, stick; to root to the spot with terror. See Gaze.]

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1. Gathas

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of aghast in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of aghast in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of aghast in a Sentence

1. Carol Folt:

   Most of us (at universities) spend our lives caring about students and admissions and trying to do things fairly ... so when you see something like that, youre just aghast, but most of us immediately started thinking, OK, boy, we know how to get to the bottom of this, were going to figure this out and that is not something I want to ever see happen again.

2. Beth Mandyck:

   I was aghast that there was no women’s bodybuilding, if there’s a category for men, why can’t there be a category for women?

3. Don Samuels:

   It was like a World Trade Center moment for us, our jaws fell to the floor. Literally, we were aghast. We looked at each other and said,' Oh, my God. It's going to be Crime City in Minneapolis City.'.

4. Adam Schiff:

   This seems to be something that goes beyond,' Attorney General Merrick Garland have to have more than a reasonable doubt before Attorney General Merrick Garland indict the king,' to' Attorney General Merrick Garland can't even start an investigation into credible allegations of criminality of the king, i don't think the Founders would have ever countenanced that. In fact, I think they would have been aghast at that.

5. President George W. Bush:

   I could drop my pants, moon the whole crowd. Everybody would be aghast, except the press guys would never notice.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=aghast
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Aghast
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=aghast
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aghast
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=aghast