Synonyms:
aback
Meaning: by surprise; "taken aback by the caustic remarks"
Synonyms:
aback
Meaning: having the wind against the forward side of the sails; "the ship came up into the wind with all yards aback"
Usage examples
Philip for a moment was taken aback.
"I was rather taken aback at seeing you with him," said John.
Philip was taken aback and for the moment remained speechless.
You are finely taken aback, and really, you are excessively ignorant.
A blow in the face could scarcely have taken the Frenchman more aback. He stiffened, and drew himself up, his eyes blazing, his face of a deathly pallor.
Joan shook back her light fluffy hair, looking rather taken aback for an instant, as Marcia emerged from the closet, where she had been invisible, arranging a rack of shoes.
The Baron was slightly taken aback, but accepted the situation with a good grace. Walking over to a small box fixed in the wall, he dropped Laploshka's two francs into the slot.
When the hoofs thundered along the road, Peter the third jumped up; but he was so taken aback when he found the man had gone off with his horse that he hadn't the sense to run after him till it was too late.
Child though he knew her to be, he hesitated whether he should call her by her given name, and was taken aback when she smilingly thanked him for doing so, with the assurance that she was often bored with the eternal conventionality of people in her social circle.