minussed

Nonplussed.

Adjective

  1. Nonplussed.
    • new synonym. / Overheard on the bus: “Weren’t you nonplussed by the market collapse?” / “I guess so. I was certainly minussed.” - 1930 June 20, Chicago Daily Tribune, volume LXXXIX, number 147, Chicago, Ill., page 12,...
    • The public is not only nonplussed by rising prices but also minussed. - 1951 August 8, “Bypaths”, in Pathfinder, volume 58, number 16, Chicago, Ill.: Farm Journal, Inc., page 51:
    • The bossman did an electrifying double take, hypoing his metabolism as the towering gent with the metallic shroud capared around the di[n]ing table. Van Valkenburg was nonplussed and completely minussed, to say the...

Origin

From minus + -ed.

Forms

more minussed most minussed

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of minus