[ adj ] as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise <adj.all> a circle of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accidentthe flabbergasted aldermen were speechless was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion
dumbfounded \dumbfounded\ adj. 1. same as {astounded}.
Many of us are dumbfounded by recent examples of misdirection, such as the frivolous antitrust case brought by state attorneys general accusing insurance companies of causing the tort crisis.
It's composed by Lee Holdridge, who wrote the theme for "Beauty and the Beast." Hopkins can be effecting in the right role, but here he is merely irritating, employing varying degrees of one emotion: dumbfounded.
"I was dumbfounded when I found out how many students signed," she said.
"I'm somewhat dumbfounded," said Ronald Rotter, an analyst with Morgan, Olmstead, Kennedy & Gardner in Los Angeles.
Many are from poor families and seem dumbfounded by his questions about how to act in a job interview.
"It was like a perverted Memorial Day parade," said a dumbfounded Treasury Department officer who witnessed the march from his post at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
His dumbfounded younger colleague says, "We've been at it six months.
His plan wasn't even out of his mouth before Sen. William Armstrong, R-Colo., interrupted to say he would be "dumbfounded" if Byrd could get everyone to agree to any single plan of attack.
Espirito Luciano, a 19-year-old government soldier who stepped on a land mine and lost his left leg 18 months ago, is dumbfounded by the question.