Definition for Surprise:

• The occurrence itself. [ Lat.]

Synonyms for Surprise:

• adj.

  •surprising (adjective)
  • unforeseen.

• n.

  •
  • wonderment.
  •
  • blow,
  • revelation,
  • scandal,
  • zinger.
  •
  • discover.
  •
  • stagger,
  • shake up,
  • spring a surprise.
  •
  • amazing,
  • astonishing,
  • surprising,
  • unexpected.
  •
  • ambush,
  • assail,
  • go for,
  • mug,
  • set on,
  • come at.
  •
  • gift,
  • valentine.
  •amazement (noun)
  • amazement,
  • astonishment,
  • awe,
  • bewilderment,
  • wonder.
  •hoo-hah (noun)
  • hoo-hah.
  •puzzlement (noun)
  • bewilderment.
  •something amazing; state of amazement (noun)
  • abruptness,
  • amazement,
  • astonishment,
  • attack,
  • awe,
  • bewilderment,
  • bombshell,
  • consternation,
  • curiosity,
  • disappointment,
  • disillusion,
  • epiphany,
  • eureka,
  • fortune,
  • godsend,
  • incredulity,
  • jolt,
  • kick,
  • marvel,
  • miracle,
  • miscalculation,
  • phenomenon,
  • portent,
  • precipitance,
  • precipitation,
  • precipitousness,
  • prodigy,
  • rarity,
  • revelation,
  • shock,
  • start,
  • stupefaction,
  • suddenness,
  • thunderbolt,
  • unexpected,
  • unforeseen,
  • whammy,
  • wonder,
  • wonderment,
  • Astoundment,
  • curveball,
  • eye-opener.
  •startle (noun)
  • assault,
  • attack.
  •surprise (noun)
  • storm,
  • surprisal.

• v.

  •alarm (verb)
  • alarm,
  • alert,
  • dismay,
  • frighten,
  • panic,
  • scare,
  • shock,
  • signal,
  • startle.
  •amaze (verb)
  • amaze,
  • astonish,
  • astound,
  • bewilder,
  • daze,
  • dazzle,
  • dumbfound,
  • impress,
  • overwhelm,
  • stun.
  •astonish; cause amazement (verb)
  • amaze,
  • astound,
  • bewilder,
  • bowl over,
  • confound,
  • confuse,
  • consternate,
  • daze,
  • dazzle,
  • discomfit,
  • disconcert,
  • dismay,
  • dumbfound,
  • electrify,
  • flabbergast,
  • floor,
  • jar,
  • nonplus,
  • overwhelm,
  • perplex,
  • petrify,
  • rattle,
  • rock,
  • stagger,
  • startle,
  • strike dumb,
  • stun,
  • stupefy,
  • take aback,
  • unsettle,
  • shake up,
  • blow away,
  • take one's breath away,
  • cause wonder,
  • leave aghast,
  • spring something on,
  • strike with awe,
  • throw a curve.
  •competition (verb)
  • storm.
  •sneak up on; catch (verb)
  • ambush,
  • burst in on,
  • bushwhack,
  • capture,
  • discover,
  • grab,
  • grasp,
  • lie in wait,
  • nab,
  • seize,
  • take,
  • waylay,
  • catch unawares,
  • come down on,
  • lay for,
  • spring on,
  • catch in the act,
  • drop in on,
  • take by surprise.
  •surprise (verb)
  • jolt,
  • take aback,
  • catch unawares.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • anticipatory,
  • awakening,
  • boggle,
  • bombshell,
  • boomerang,
  • bromide,
  • bushwhack,
  • defy,
  • disconcert,
  • fluke,
  • fluky,
  • galvanize,
  • horrify,
  • judgmental,
  • kicker,
  • scandal,
  • thunderbolt,
  • trauma,
  • valentine,
  • wonderment,
  • happenchance.
  •
  • amiss,
  • banality,
  • blow,
  • confound,
  • contretemps,
  • depend,
  • discretionary,
  • electrify,
  • entertainment,
  • expectant,
  • flat-footed,
  • fortuitous,
  • hap,
  • hurried,
  • mischance,
  • precipitant,
  • shocker,
  • stupefy,
  • sudden,
  • token,
  • truism,
  • usual,
  • waylay,
  • Histrionical,
  • zinger,
  • blindside,
  • COMP.
  •
  • abrupt,
  • accident,
  • backfire,
  • casualty,
  • generous,
  • inadvertent,
  • jar,
  • normal,
  • numb,
  • ordinary,
  • revelation,
  • sicken,
  • subjective,
  • theatrical.
  •
  • anticipate,
  • contingent,
  • favor,
  • floor,
  • gift,
  • throw,
  • turn.
  •
  • catch,
  • chance,
  • stagger.
  •
  • take.
  •
  • figure,
  • HIT.
  •alarm
  • panic,
  • give a turn,
  • make jump.
  •amaze
  • astound,
  • bowl over,
  • stupefy.
  •ambush
  • bushwhack,
  • lay for.
  •astonish
  • bowl over.
  •astonishment
  • stupefaction.
  •confound
  • flabbergast.
  •confuse
  • confound.
  •dumbfound
  • blow mind,
  • blow one's mind.
  •entertainment
  • treat.
  •waylay
  • lie in wait,
  • set upon,
  • swoop down on.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abrupt,
  • abruptness,
  • accident,
  • admiration,
  • amazement,
  • amazing,
  • ambuscade,
  • ambush,
  • amiss,
  • amusement,
  • anticipate,
  • anticipation,
  • anticipatory,
  • appal,
  • assail,
  • assault,
  • astonished,
  • astonishing,
  • astounded,
  • astounding,
  • at,
  • attack,
  • awakening,
  • backfire,
  • baffle,
  • ball,
  • banality,
  • beautiful,
  • bedaze,
  • bedazzle,
  • beguilement,
  • bemuse,
  • benumb,
  • blind,
  • blitz,
  • blockbuster,
  • blow,
  • blunt,
  • boggle,
  • bolt,
  • bomb,
  • bombshell,
  • boomerang,
  • bowl over,
  • breath,
  • bromide,
  • brutal,
  • burden,
  • burst in on,
  • bushwhack,
  • capture,
  • casualty,
  • catch,
  • caution,
  • chance,
  • circumvent,
  • come upon,
  • confound,
  • confuse,
  • confusion,
  • consternate,
  • consternation,
  • contingent,
  • contretemps,
  • contrive,
  • crude,
  • curiosity,
  • curt,
  • defy,
  • depend,
  • despair,
  • deter,
  • development,
  • disappointment,
  • discombobulate,
  • discomfit,
  • discompose,
  • disconcert,
  • discourteous,
  • discover,
  • discretionary,
  • disgust,
  • disillusion,
  • disquiet,
  • disturb,
  • double,
  • dumbfound,
  • electrify,
  • entertainment,
  • epiphany,
  • eureka,
  • expectant,
  • fall upon,
  • fascinate,
  • fascination,
  • favor,
  • faze,
  • fear,
  • fearful,
  • fearfully,
  • festival,
  • figure,
  • find,
  • finesse,
  • flabbergast,
  • flat-footed,
  • flatter,
  • floor,
  • floored,
  • flooring,
  • fluke,
  • fluky,
  • flummox,
  • force,
  • fortuitous,
  • fortune,
  • fright,
  • frightful,
  • galvanize,
  • garden party,
  • generous,
  • gerrymander,
  • gift,
  • glare,
  • go for,
  • godsend,
  • gorgeous,
  • grab,
  • grasp,
  • gross,
  • hap,
  • harry,
  • hen party,
  • home,
  • hoo-hah,
  • horrify,
  • housewarming,
  • hurried,
  • impertinent,
  • impolite,
  • impromptu,
  • inadvertent,
  • incredulity,
  • indelicate,
  • instinctive,
  • intrigue,
  • jar,
  • jerk,
  • joke,
  • joker,
  • judgmental,
  • jump,
  • kettle,
  • kick,
  • kicker,
  • lay hands on,
  • lay into,
  • levee,
  • lie in wait,
  • limit,
  • little,
  • maneuver,
  • marvel,
  • miracle,
  • miscalculate,
  • miscalculation,
  • mischance,
  • mug,
  • nab,
  • natural,
  • nauseate,
  • nonplus,
  • normal,
  • novelty,
  • numb,
  • ordinary,
  • outrage,
  • overcome,
  • overpower,
  • overreach,
  • overtake,
  • paralyse,
  • paralyze,
  • party,
  • perplex,
  • perturb,
  • perturbation,
  • petrify,
  • phenomenon,
  • pitch into,
  • plain,
  • plan,
  • pop,
  • portent,
  • pound,
  • precipitance,
  • precipitant,
  • precipitation,
  • precipitousness,
  • prodigy,
  • pull up short,
  • puzzle,
  • puzzlement,
  • rage,
  • ramp,
  • rarity,
  • rattle,
  • raw,
  • reception,
  • repel,
  • revelation,
  • revolt,
  • rock,
  • rout,
  • rude,
  • scandal,
  • seize,
  • sensation,
  • set on,
  • set upon,
  • shake,
  • shocker,
  • shocking,
  • sicken,
  • smoker,
  • soiree,
  • spontaneous,
  • stag party,
  • stagger,
  • staggerer,
  • start,
  • startling,
  • storm,
  • strike,
  • strike dumb,
  • stump,
  • stunner,
  • stunning,
  • stupefaction,
  • stupefy,
  • stupor,
  • subjective,
  • sudden,
  • suddenness,
  • surprisal,
  • surprise attack,
  • surprised,
  • surprising,
  • swan,
  • switch,
  • take,
  • tax,
  • temporize,
  • theatrical,
  • throw,
  • thunderbolt,
  • thunderclap,
  • token,
  • trap,
  • trauma,
  • traumatize,
  • treat,
  • truism,
  • turn,
  • turn up,
  • twist,
  • unannounced,
  • unanticipated,
  • undermine,
  • undreamed of,
  • undreamt of,
  • unexpected,
  • unforeseen,
  • unheralded,
  • unlooked-for,
  • unnerve,
  • unpredicted,
  • unsettle,
  • unsought,
  • upset,
  • usual,
  • valentine,
  • waylay,
  • whammy,
  • wonderful,
  • wonderfully,
  • wonderment,
  • Amazedness,
  • Ambushment,
  • Astoundment,
  • Dumfound,
  • Dumfounder,
  • Histrionical,
  • Marveling,
  • Outstand,
  • Ridotto,
  • zinger,
  • peripeteia,
  • blindside,
  • shake up,
  • Stound,
  • catch unawares,
  • COMP,
  • HIT,
  • conversazione,
  • unpublicized,
  • come at,
  • come down on,
  • descend on,
  • fall on,
  • gang up on,
  • go at,
  • happenchance,
  • have at,
  • hit on,
  • lay for,
  • light into,
  • sail into,
  • blow away,
  • land on,
  • spring on,
  • surprise party,
  • kettle drum,
  • unadvertised,
  • hit upon,
  • crack down on,
  • without warning,
  • catch in the act,
  • spring a surprise,
  • take one's breath away,
  • not expect,
  • be amazed,
  • be surprised,
  • am surprised,
  • blow mind,
  • blow one's mind,
  • bowl down,
  • catch off guard,
  • cause wonder,
  • come from behind,
  • confoundment,
  • curveball,
  • descend upon,
  • drop in on,
  • dumbfoundment,
  • give a turn,
  • leave aghast,
  • make jump,
  • pounce upon,
  • spring something on,
  • strike with awe,
  • succeeded in finding,
  • swoop down on,
  • take by surprise,
  • take the offensive,
  • take unawares,
  • throw a curve,
  • throw off balance,
  • wade into,
  • eye-opener,
  • sneak attack,
  • tea-party,
  • blow hard,
  • tamasha,
  • sense of wonder,
  • earthshaker,
  • yach,
  • mirabile dictu.

Antonyms for Surprise:

• n.

  • something amazing; state of amazement
    calmness, composure, coolness, expectation, happiness, indifference.
  • Other antonyms:
    anticipation, calmness, composure, coolness, expectation, indifference, preparation, self-possession, steadiness, stoicism.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    calm, calmness, clarify, clear up, comfort, compose, composure, coolness, enlighten, expect, expectation, explain, let go, liberate, lose, offer, order.

• v.

  • astonish; cause amazement
    bore, calm, clarify, clear up, comfort, compose, enlighten, expect, explain, order, soothe.
  • sneak up on; catch
    free, give, let go, liberate, lose, misunderstand, offer, release.