All bombshell synonyms

noun bombshell

• revelation — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
• catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
• disturbance — the act of disturbing.
• consternation — Consternation is a feeling of anxiety or fear.
• collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
• confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
• earthquake — something that is severely disruptive; upheaval.
• trauma — Pathology. a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident. the condition produced by this; traumatism.
• awe — Awe is the feeling of respect and amazement that you have when you are faced with something wonderful and often rather frightening.
• injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
• scare — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
• bewilderment — Bewilderment is the feeling of being bewildered.
• revelation — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
• curiosity — Curiosity is a desire to know about something.
• amazement — Amazement is the feeling you have when something surprises you very much.
• astonishment — Astonishment is a feeling of great surprise.
• shocker — a thick, bushy mass, as of hair.
• disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
• shock — a thick, bushy mass, as of hair.
• jolt — Java Open Language Toolkit
• setback — Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
• letdown — a decrease in volume, force, energy, etc.: a letdown in sales; a general letdown of social barriers.
• calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
• disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
• mishap — an unfortunate accident.
• tragedy — a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster: stunned by the tragedy of so many deaths.
• casualty — A casualty is a person who is injured or killed in a war or in an accident.
• rocket — Maurice [maw-rees;; French moh-rees] /mɔˈris;; French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), ("Rocket") 1921–2000, Canadian hockey player.
• mine — an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
• missile — an object or weapon for throwing, hurling, or shooting, as a stone, bullet, or arrow.
• projectile — an object fired from a gun with an explosive propelling charge, such as a bullet, shell, rocket, or grenade.
• device — A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
• torpedo — a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines.
• bump — If you bump into something or someone, you accidentally hit them while you are moving.
• reversal — an act or instance of reversing.
• punch — the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.
• thrill — to affect with a sudden wave of keen emotion or excitement, as to produce a tremor or tingling sensation through the body.
• phenomenon — a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable: to study the phenomena of nature.
• prodigy — a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability: a musical prodigy.
• breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
• stupor — suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.: He lay there in a drunken stupor.
• crash — A crash is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• ram — random-access memory; computer memory available to the user for creating, loading, or running programs and for the temporary storage and manipulation of data, in which time of access to each item is independent of the storage sequence. As a storage medium, RAM is volatile, so its contents are lost when the power fails or is turned off.
• whammy — the evil eye; jinx.
• stroke — a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur: The defendant and his/her attorney must appear in court.
• stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
• jarring — to have a harshly unpleasant or perturbing effect on one's nerves, feelings, thoughts, etc.: The sound of the alarm jarred.
• prostration — the act of prostrating.
• turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.