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- You Strive To Be Number One. Your cakes have to be the best cakes at the school bake sale. Your kid has to be the best player in the football team. The Christmas decorations on your house have to be the best in the street.
- You Want Total Control. Whether it’s organising kids birthday parties, heading your local neighbourhood watch, volunteering at your kids’ school or organising office parties.
- You’d Sacrifice Someone Else To Save Yourself. There is only one space left on the class trip, and you insist your kid deserves it over the others. You have the opportunity to have lunch with the boss you’re taking it, and making damn sure no one else gets the opportunity.
- You Don’t Value Loyalty. Loyalty just means holding on to dead weight! You like to make friends with those who can serve you, and don’t mind dropping them when they are no longer beneficial to you.
The meaning of DUMBSTRUCK is made silent by astonishment. How to use dumbstruck in a sentence.
The adjective dumbstruck describes someone who's rendered speechless by an overwhelming emotion — in other words, struck dumb, or "silent," which is the oldest meaning of the word, directly from the Old English.
temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded. Also: dumbstricken (ˈdʌmˌstrɪkən) Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Word origin.
Dumbstruck definition: temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded. . See examples of DUMBSTRUCK used in a sentence.
Synonyms for DUMBSTRUCK: stunned, amazed, shocked, astonished, surprised, dumfounded, horrified, appalled; Antonyms of DUMBSTRUCK: nonchalant, unruffled, casual, blasé, blase.
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What does the adjective dumbstruck mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective dumbstruck . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
