stupor
noun
Synonyms
- hebetude
- languor
- lassitude
- lethargy
- listlessness
- torpor
Example Sentences
Stanislav Budnitsky, The Conversation, 19 Apr. 2022 Assaulted and plied with alcohol to keep her in a stupor, the girl fled after chewing through the ties that held her down on a bed, authorities said in court documents. CBS News, 5 Aug. 2022 Over the course of six years, Amber Heard has reiterated accusations that ex-husband Johnny Depp had an alcohol and substance abuse problem that led to him beating her in fits of rage and stupor. Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2022 The news jerks them out of a fabricated post-racial stupor and inspires a bundle of emotions: guilt, anxiety, fury. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2022 But there isn’t enough coffee in the world to jolt the filmmaker out of his stupor. Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 June 2022 Some members of the media began debating this week whether showing pictures of these dead children could shake America out of its stupor. Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 27 May 2022 The effect is unexpected enough to startle anyone out of a political stupor, and serves to make the protagonist in question immediately identifiable and memorable. New York Times, 26 May 2022 Although Toyotomi died in a delirious stupor in 1598, subsequent shoguns continued his purges. Rob Goss, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2022 See More Word History
Middle English, from Latin, from stupēre
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Medical Definition
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Synonyms & Similar Words
- boredom
- lethargy
- torpor
- lassitude
- languor
- indifference
- fatigue
- listlessness
- laziness
- sleepiness
- malaise
- hebetude
- narcosis
- inaction
- idleness
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- vigor
- vitality
- enthusiasm
- vivacity
- eagerness
- ambition
- vim
- enterprise
- spiritedness
- keenness
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of stupor are languor, lassitude, lethargy, and torpor. While all these words mean "physical or mental inertness," stupor implies a deadening of the mind and senses by shock, narcotics, or intoxicants.
The words languor and stupor can be used in similar contexts, but languor suggests inertia induced by an enervating climate or illness or love.
The synonyms lassitude and stupor are sometimes interchangeable, but lassitude stresses listlessness or indifference resulting from fatigue or poor health.
In some situations, the words lethargy and stupor are roughly equivalent. However, lethargy implies such drowsiness or aversion to activity as is induced by disease, injury, or drugs.
While the synonyms torpor and stupor are close in meaning, torpor implies a state of suspended animation as of hibernating animals but may suggest merely extreme sluggishness.