All startled synonyms
star·tle
S s adj startled
- afraid — If you are afraid of someone or afraid to do something, you are frightened because you think that something very unpleasant is going to happen to you.
- awestruck — If someone is awestruck, they are very impressed and amazed by something.
- frightened — thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.
- butterflies — tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness
- scared — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- faint-hearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- blown away — past participle of blow away.
- chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
- in a sweat — perspiring
- dumbfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
- bewildered — If you are bewildered, you are very confused and cannot understand something or decide what you should do.
- awe-struck — filled with awe
- aghast — If you are aghast, you are filled with horror and surprise.
- horror-struck — stricken with horror; horrified; aghast.
adjective startled
- hunted — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- amazed — filled with incredulity or surprise
- jellyfish — any of various marine coelenterates of a soft, gelatinous structure, especially one with an umbrellalike body and long, trailing tentacles; medusa.
- rabbity — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
- alarmed — If someone is alarmed, they feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
verb startled
- dragooned — Simple past tense and past participle of dragoon.
- innervated — to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.
- jumped — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
- innerved — Simple past tense and past participle of innerve.