I was nonplussed
I was surprised and confused
TRANSLATION
nonplussed = verblüfft, verlegen --- GOOGLE INDEX nonplussed: approximately 400,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Singer is NONPLUSSED as not guilty verdict was delivered
(The Independent)
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The 24-year-old American, who had seemed NONPLUSSED by his first defeat in world and Olympic competition since 2005, knew just what to do after the victory, raising both arms in celebration as he stood on the deck to acknowledge the cheers of the crowd.
(AFP news service)
(The Independent)
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The 24-year-old American, who had seemed NONPLUSSED by his first defeat in world and Olympic competition since 2005, knew just what to do after the victory, raising both arms in celebration as he stood on the deck to acknowledge the cheers of the crowd.
(AFP news service)
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nonplussed
adjective
1. Bewildered; unsure how to respond.
Note that recently in North American English nonplussed has come to mean unimpressed, hence:
2. Unfazed, unaffected, or unimpressed (US, nonstandard or informal)
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DID YOU KNOW?
Nonplussed is from the noun nonplus, which literally means "a state where nothing more can be said or done" and which comes from the Latin non plus meaning "no more, no further." Nonpluss can be used as a transitive verb or adjective to mean perplexed, bewildered, not sure how to react.
While traveling through a small Swiss town, the Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard, in need of a shave, visited a local barber:
"Make sure you give me a close shave," he said, settling into a chair. "My beard grows so quickly that two hours after I've had a shave, I need another." The barber examined him with understandable skepticism. "If your beard grows in two hours," he declared, "I'll give you a second shave for free." Some time later, Auguste left the shop, clean-shaven and satisfied. Two hours later, however, the barber was nonplussed to see his customer return with a thick growth of stubble. "So," the man (actually Auguste's identical twin brother, Jean Felix) asked sitting down for a free shave. "Do you believe me now?"
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SYNONYMS
at a loss, astonished, astounded, baffled, bewildered, boggled, confounded, dazed, dumbfounded, floored, mystified, puzzled, stumped, stunned, stupefied, taken aback, thrown into tizzy, wonderstruck
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"It was a standard performance, I was nonplussed by the applause at the end!"
adjective
1. Bewildered; unsure how to respond.
Note that recently in North American English nonplussed has come to mean unimpressed, hence:
2. Unfazed, unaffected, or unimpressed (US, nonstandard or informal)
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DID YOU KNOW?
Nonplussed is from the noun nonplus, which literally means "a state where nothing more can be said or done" and which comes from the Latin non plus meaning "no more, no further." Nonpluss can be used as a transitive verb or adjective to mean perplexed, bewildered, not sure how to react.
While traveling through a small Swiss town, the Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard, in need of a shave, visited a local barber:
"Make sure you give me a close shave," he said, settling into a chair. "My beard grows so quickly that two hours after I've had a shave, I need another." The barber examined him with understandable skepticism. "If your beard grows in two hours," he declared, "I'll give you a second shave for free." Some time later, Auguste left the shop, clean-shaven and satisfied. Two hours later, however, the barber was nonplussed to see his customer return with a thick growth of stubble. "So," the man (actually Auguste's identical twin brother, Jean Felix) asked sitting down for a free shave. "Do you believe me now?"
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SYNONYMS
at a loss, astonished, astounded, baffled, bewildered, boggled, confounded, dazed, dumbfounded, floored, mystified, puzzled, stumped, stunned, stupefied, taken aback, thrown into tizzy, wonderstruck
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"It was a standard performance, I was nonplussed by the applause at the end!"
