Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Affected with sudden astonishment or amazement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Struck, blasted, or injured by lightning.
- Astonished; amazed; struck dumb by some surprising or terrible thing suddenly presented to the mind or view.
Wiktionary
- adj. Astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise
Etymologies
- thunder + struck (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Given the book's meteorological theme, "thunderstruck" is probably the best fit.”
“As the left field screen proclaimed during the top of the 9th inning, the Rangers were "thunderstruck".”
“If the word "thunderstruck" did justice in any degree to the state of mind which we wish to describe we would gladly use it, but it does not.”
“Fallis, reached on the phone after the winning book was declared, said he was "thunderstruck" at the decision.”
“A fellow blogger reports that he was "thunderstruck" by the recent comments of another blogger who commented on the …”
“I'm kind of thunderstruck by how many times the speculation has turned up this particular avenue since the big blaze (it's mentioned in the "where's Rockford?" thread, too).”
“In THE OKLAHOMAN, Mike Baldwin writes "with 'thunderstruck' blaring over speakers inside Leadership Square, NBA players Desmond Mason and Damien Wilkins and a group of kids unveiled the Thunder logo Wednesday afternoon.”
“You totter away from each section of his work thunderstruck both at the brilliance with which he dissects the real nature of sin, and at his fierce refusal to marshal the least scrap of self-defense ( "Oh -- we were just high-spirited boys!").”
“Ready to get thunderstruck and shaken all night long?”
“I watched the Who Killed The Electric Car documentary last night and was thunderstruck by the "ad" that GM made when California made them make electric cars against their will.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thunderstruck’.
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One word book titles
More popular books often have shorter titles. Here is a list of one word book titles
blink, Freakonomics, roots, sugar, banjo, rising, cane, crave, emotions, love, until, dune and 118 more...
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Beautiful Compound Words
aftermath, afterthought, butterfly, campfire, colorblind, backhand, crossword, cupcake, dollhouse, drawbridge, dreadlock, dreamscape and 73 more...
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Confused/Surprised Words
Words that describe being in this state are quite simply wonderful.
astonished, flabbergasted, bamboozled, thunderstruck, dumbstruck, perplexed, addlepated, bewildered, dumbfounded, perturbed, befuddled, confounded
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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Word Gems
foist, coercion, abecedism, abiectic, abigeus, abiogenesis, ablaut, thunderstruck, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, filagree, blotto and 196 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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the name of the rose
pleasing words I encounter whilst reading umberto eco's novel of the same name.
matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, nones, vespers, compline, usurper, simoniac, heresiarch, malefactor and 230 more...
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die6die's Words
somnambulist, obfuscate, hirsute, kleptobibliomania, serendipitous, dissuade, duplicitous, zounds, lo, unleash, fortnight, thaumaturgy and 278 more...
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A Nation Among Nations
Words taken from A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History by Thomas Bender.
filiation, tympana, terraqueous, entrepot, lineament, tout court, oikoumene, pax turcica, feitoria, routinize, numerousness, limingl and 82 more...
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Chamber Club Words of the Day(s)
These words have been used as the Word of the Day in Chamber Club 540 Toastmasters meetings.
sonorous, logy, convivial, abhorrence, presently, reticent, fantasy, imminent, zealot, ambition, narcissistic, thunderstruck and 7 more...
Tweets
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slumry It was a joke, just pointing out the literal denotation, as opposed to the figurative meaning. See also dumbstruck. Jun 26, 2007
uselessness At first I thought so too, but actually this makes sense because the word means startled, and loud thunder is awfully startling when it "strikes" you. When lightning strikes you, you're probably more likely to be dead than surprised. ;-) Jun 26, 2007
slumry shouldn't it be lightningstruck? Jun 26, 2007