Talk:startled

adjective sense

We are missing the adjective sense here. ---> Tooironic 13:23, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

RFD discussion: May 2020–January 2021

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startled

The sense "extremely shocked" seems either redundant to "surprised and slightly frightened" or if not I doubt it's correct. If you found a Xenomorph to be standing behind you, you wouldn't be "startled", would you? Alexis Jazz (talk) 07:17, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

I would agree that startlement is not "extreme". Equinox ◑ 18:49, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Delete for the reasons stated above. Mihia (talk) 21:39, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

This is really an RFV though, if we think it's worth asking for cites for the second sense of extreme terror. But any such cites would have to be clearly not the sense 1 of mild alarm. Equinox ◑ 16:41, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

• RFD-deleted. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 23:24, 1 January 2021 (UTC)