Usually means: Surprise and fear; deep dismay.
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  1. consternation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. consternation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. consternation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. consternation: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Consternation, consternation: Wordnik
  7. consternation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. consternation: Wiktionary
  9. consternation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. consternation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. consternation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Consternation, consternation: Dictionary.com
  13. consternation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. consternation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Consternation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Consternation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. consternation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. consternation: Rhymezone
  19. Consternation, consternation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. consternation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. consternation: Free Dictionary
  22. consternation: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  24. consternation: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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▸ noun:  Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.

Similar:
dismay, alarm, stagger, bepuzzlement, confuzzle, confuddle, addlement, puzzlement, embroil, conturbation, more...

Opposite:
relief, comfort

Types:
dismay, worry, apprehension, concern, trouble, distress, agitation, more...

Phrases:
filled with consternation, causes consternation, more...

Adjectives:
great, general, utmost, much, such, considerable, utter, universal, silent, sudden, deepest

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     stormy blue,     deep purple,     midnight blue, more...


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Similar:
dismay, alarm, stagger, bepuzzlement, confuzzle, confuddle, addlement, puzzlement, embroil, conturbation, more...

Opposite:
relief, comfort

Types:
dismay, worry, apprehension, concern, trouble, distress, agitation, more...

Phrases:
filled with consternation, causes consternation, more...

Adjectives:
great, general, utmost, much, such, considerable, utter, universal, silent, sudden, deepest

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     stormy blue,     deep purple,     midnight blue, more...



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