amazed

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsastoniedastonishedastoundedstunned

   Similarsurprised

Other forms of amazed

comparative

amazedder·

superlative

amazeddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about amazed

What does amazed mean?

amazed means "filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock".

How many syllables are in amazed?

amazed has 2 syllables: ama-zed. The stress falls on "zed". In IPA it is /əˈmeɪzd/.

What is another word for amazed?

Close synonyms include astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amazed a common word?

amazed is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.