Definition of surprise

"surprise" in the noun sense

1. surprise

the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you

2. surprise

a sudden unexpected event

3. surprise, surprisal

the act of surprising someone

"surprise" in the verb sense

1. surprise

cause to be surprised

"The news really surprised me"

2. surprise

come upon or take unawares

"She surprised the couple"

"He surprised an interesting scene"

3. storm, surprise

attack by storm attack suddenly

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Quotations for surprise

Whenever a noble deed is wrought.
Whenever is spoken a noble thought.
Our hearts, in glad surprise,
To higher levels rise. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

To the mind,
Which is itself, no changes bring surprise. [ Byron ]

And otherwhyles with amorous delights
And pleasing toyes he would her entertaine.
Now singing sweetly to surprise her sprights,
Now making layes of love and lover's paine,
Bransles, ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine!
Oft purposes, oft riddles, he devys'd;
And thousands like which flowed in his braine,
With which he fed her fancy, and entys'd
To take to his new love, and leave her old despys'd. [ Spenser ]

Who has not seen that feeling born of flame
Crimson the cheek at mention of a name?
The rapturous touch of some divine surprise
Flash deep suffusion of celestial dyes:
When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed,
And the heart's secret was at once confessed? [ Abraham Coles ]

Women have become so highly educated that nothing should surprise them except happy marriages. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Genius is always a surprise, but it is born with great advantages when the stock from which it springs has been long under cultivation. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise. [ Dr. Johnson ]

To elevate and surprise is the great art of quackery and puffing; to raise a lively and exaggerated image in the mind, and take it by surprise before it can recover breath. [ Hazlitt ]

Resolution will sometimes relax, and diligence will sometimes be interrupted; but let no accidental surprise or deviation, whether short or long, dispose you to despondency. [ Johnson ]

Surprise is so essential an ingredient of wit that no wit will bear repetition; - at least, the original electrical feeling produced by any piece of wit can never be renewed. [ Sydney Smith ]

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures, faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say. [ Emerson ]

surprise in Scrabble®

The word surprise is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters surprise:

SURPRISE
(117)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (5 words)

pursers, pussier, suspire, upriser, uprises

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word surprise

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In surprise

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surprise in Words With Friends™

The word surprise is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters surprise:

SURPRISE
(120)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (5 words)

pursers, pussier, suspire, upriser, uprises

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word surprise

SURPRISE
(120)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In surprise

SURPRISE
(120)
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(104 = 69 + 35)
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Words within the letters of surprise

2 letter words in surprise (6 words)

3 letter words in surprise (15 words)

6 letter words in surprise (9 words)

7 letter words in surprise (5 words)

8 letter words in surprise (Anagrams) (3 words)

surprise + 1 blank (5 words)

Words containing the sequence surprise

Words that start with surprise (5 words)

Words with surprise in them (2 words)

Words that end with surprise (1 word)

Word Growth involving surprise

Shorter words in surprise

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Longer words containing surprise

surprised unsurprised

surpriser surprisers

surprises