Amazed
/əˈmeɪzd/noun
Greatly surprised or astonished.
Did you know?The word traces back to an older sense of being dazed or confounded, and it ultimately connects to a Germanic root for confusion that also lives in modern English words like maze and amaze.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*mazjaną
“to confuse, bewilder”
Old English
OE
amasian
“to confound, stupefy, drive mad”
Middle English
ME
amasen
“to astound, terrify, bewilder”
14th–15th Century
English
amazed
“astonished, confounded, struck dumb”
Modern English
English
amazed
“greatly surprised or filled with wonder”