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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-626/
- Published: 2021-10-16T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-25T20:04:15.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:31

The word for today is…

aghast (adjective):

: struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aghast?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : If you are aghast, you might look like you’ve just seen a ghost, or something similarly shocking. “Aghast” traces back to a Middle English verb, gasten, meaning “to frighten.” “Gasten” (which also gave us ghastly, meaning “terrible or frightening) comes from “gast,” a Middle English spelling of the word ghost. “Gast” also came to be used in English as a verb meaning “to scare.” That verb is now obsolete, but its spirit lives on in words spoken by the character Edmund in Shakespeare’s King Lear: “gasted by the noise I made, full suddenly he fled.”

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