surprise

Significat (anglès)

Noun

1. Something unexpected.
2. Something unexpected.
3. The feeling that something unexpected has happened.

Verb

1. To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected.
2. To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.
3. To undergo or witness something unexpected.
4. To cause surprise.
5. To attack unexpectedly.
6. To take unawares.

Intj

1. Drawing attention to a surprising action by oneself.
2. Sarcastically drawing attention to something that should have been obvious.

Amb guionet com

sur‧prise

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/səˈpɹaɪz/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Middle English surprise, borrowed from Middle French surprise (“an overtake”), nominal use of the past participle of Old French sorprendre (“to overtake”), from sor- (“over”) + prendre (“to take”), from Latin super- + Latin prendere, contracted from prehendere (“to grasp, seize”). Doublet of suppli.

Sents

" If good things are coming , they will be a pleasant surprise ," said the seer .