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1. startled
adjective. ['ˈstɑːrtəld'] excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement.
Antonyms
Rhymes with Startled
- abled
- addled
- ambled
- angled
- annulled
- assembled
- babbled
- backpedaled
- baffled
- barreled
- barreled
- battled
- bedeviled
- bedraggled
- befuddled
- belittled
- bespectacled
- bevelled
- bicycled
- bluepencilled
How do you pronounce startled?
Pronounce startled as ˈstɑrtəld.
US - How to pronounce startled in American English
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Sentences with startled
1. Adjective
A raised-eyebrow or a startled expression helps propel the joke.
2. Verb, past participle
Japanese beetle grubs are approximately 1 inch long and assume the curled C-shape form when startled.
Quotes about startled
1. Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
- John Updike
2. Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
- John Updike
3. I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box...
- Rick Riordan
