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say it: sur-PRAHYZD
surprised is an adjective meaning "taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment". It is pronounced /sɚˈpɹaɪzd/ — sur-PRAHYZD. It carries one recorded sense.
taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment
“surprised by her student's ingenuity”
“surprised that he remembered my name”
“a surprised expression”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for surprised come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.