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sur·prised

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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

Wiktionary

  1. surprisedadjective

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

Wikipedia

  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.

Webster Dictionary

  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

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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. Barack Obama:

    Friends are surprised I answer the door now.

  2. Lee Copeland:

    If you measure the wrong thing, and then you reward the wrong thing, don't be surprised if you get the wrong thing.

  3. Bryan Wang:

    They're growing so fast and so lean, I wouldn't be surprised even if they were losing money, every company is trying to match the Xiaomi price.

  4. Maddie Corey:

    We are jumping with joy to hear Crash is the next Cadbury Bunny but not surprised as he is always the center of attention in any room. He’s been through so much over the past few years and we appreciate the love his friends, family and cat enthusiasts across the country have shown, we can’t wait to see Crash take center stage for this year’s Cadbury Clucking Bunny Commercial and share his story with the world.

  5. Ned Price:

    We were looking forward to hosting the bilateral meeting, we were surprised to first learn via media reports that the prime minister, rather than accept our invitation, opted to cancel his visit.

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