thunderstricken

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English

Etymology

From thunder +‎ stricken.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈθʌndəɹˌstɹɪkən/

Verb

thunderstricken

  1. past participle of thunderstrike

Adjective

thunderstricken (comparative more thunderstricken, superlative most thunderstricken)

  1. Thunderstruck.
    • 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 104,
      I sawe straight, Maiesty (sitting in the throne of Beautie) draw foorth such a sworde of iust disdaine, that I remayned as a man thunder-striken; not daring, no not able, to beholde that power.
    • 1831, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eugene Aram, Complete‎:
      The Doctor was so thunderstricken, that he pocketed the money without uttering a word.
    • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 54, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1839, →OCLC, page 540:
      If some tremendous apparition from the world of shadows had suddenly presented itself before him, Ralph Nickleby could not have been more thunder-stricken than he was by this surprise.
    • 1851, anonymous author, The Book of Enterprise and Adventure‎:
      At the first shock, no token, in heaven or on earth, had excited attention; but at the sudden movement, and at the aspect of destruction, an overwhelming terror seized on the general mind, insomuch, that the instinct of self-preservation was suspended, and men remained thunderstricken and immoveable.
    • 1903, Richard Garnett, The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales‎:
      The aghast and thunderstricken philosophers remained gazing at each other for a moment. "
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