Thursday Grammar: Nonplussed

posted by Matthew Wrather on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 3:41pm

I don’t know what people are thinking when the use the word “nonplussed” to mean the opposite of “moved” or “impressed”. Maybe that those things are “plusses” and the person is not any of them.

The word “nonplussed” means “surprised”, “bewildered”, “at a loss.” It’s the opposite of “unmoved.”

Next Week: A very good post, but not the penultimate.

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  1. Rebecca on Thu, 9th Oct 2008 3:50 pm 

    Heh, I’m really glad I looked that up, because now I also know that nonplussed is almost literally Latin for, “I got nothing”.

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