English

Adjective

thunderstricken ‎(comparative more thunderstricken, superlative most thunderstricken)

1. thunderstruck
   • 1831, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eugene Aram, Complete:

     The Doctor was so thunderstricken, that he pocketed the money without uttering a word.

   • 1851, Anonymous, 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. "