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Synonyms for startled
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Princeton's WordNet
startled(adj)
excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement
"students startled by the teacher's quiet return"; "the sudden fluttering of the startled pigeons"; "her startled expression"
Antonyms:
not surprised, unsurprised
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "startled":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4024 | caught | |
#6106 | surprised | |
#9982 | scared | |
#20134 | frightened | |
#30215 | startled |
How to use startled in a sentence?
He kind of startled me, he says,' Well, what are you doing here ?'.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
So, if the cow is soft and nurturing that's how I will paint it and if the cow is sort of angry and startled then I'll try and treat that in the temperate. So, they portray a different thing and it's the thing that is keeping them unique, keeping a sense that each one is different and it's kind of more of an emotional portrayal than a photographic one.
When the police came, he got very startled and at that point he said,' They're going to arrest me.' And I said,' I won't let them do that. Just stay with me,'.
I only saw one person, he sort of snapped up, stood up, and turned around. He looked startled. We made eye contact.
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