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Definition: Stupor |
StuporNoun1. The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally; "his mother's deathleft him in a daze"; "he was numb with shock". 2. Marginal consciousness; "his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion and by the blows"; "someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stupor" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
Etymology: Stupor \Stu"por\, noun. [Latin expression, from stupere to be struck senseless.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Partial or nearly complete unconsciousness, manifested by the subject's responding only to vigorous stimulation. Also, in psychiatry, a disorder marked by reduced responsiveness. (references) |
Medicine | A state characterized either by a lowering of consciousness or by mutism, or both. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: StuporSynonyms: daze (n), grogginess (n), semiconsciousness (n), shock (n), stupefaction (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inactivity | Dullness; Adjective: languor; segnity, segnitude; lentor; sluggishness; (slowness); procrastination; (delay); torpor, torpidity, torpescence; stupor; (insensibility); somnolence; drowsiness; Adjective: nodding; Verb: oscitation, oscitancy; pandiculation, hypnotism, lethargy; statuvolence heaviness, heavy eyelids. |
Insensibility | Torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state; sleep; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness; (physical insensibility). |
Wonder | Noun: wonder, marvel; astonishment, amazement, wonderment, bewilderment; amazedness; Adjective: admiration, awe; stupor, stupefaction; stound, fascination; sensation; surprise; (inexpectation) O. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stupor |
| English words defined with "stupor": Carotic ♦ narcotic, narcotising, narcotizing, Nervous fever. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stupor": Electronarcosis ♦ Schizophrenia, Catatonic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Stupor" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (stupor), Dutch (stupor), German (stupor), Latin (astonishment, dullness, insensibility, numbness, stupefaction, stupidity, stupor, torpor), Serbo-Croatian (stupor). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Stupor Duck (1956) The Stupor Salesman (1948) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He stood nailed to his place by apprehension and stupor. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He waited in stupor of mind till it should lift and reveal what it had hidden. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Dizziness, drowsiness, slurred speech, lethargy, depressed reflexes, general muscle weakness, and stupor are other possible effects. (references) | |
More severe infection is marked by headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, occasional convulsions (especially in infants) and spastic (but rarely flaccid) paralysis. (references) | ||
Symptoms, which vary greatly among patients and usually develop during childhood, may include slow writhing, distorting muscle contractions of the limbs, face, or trunk, choreoathetosis (involuntary, purposeless jerky muscle movements), muscle rigidity (uncontrolled tightness of the muscles), spasticity (sudden, involuntary muscle spasms), ataxia (inability to coordinate movements), confusion, disorientation, seizures, stupor, and dementia. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Stupor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stupor" is used about 96 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 96 | 33,456 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "stupor": acquired stupor. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stupor | 19 |
star stupor | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stupor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shtangie (consternation, paralysis), shastisje, trullosje (dazing, stunning, stupefaction), mpirje (numbness, stupefaction, torpidity, torpor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غيبوبة (coma, shock, stupefaction, zombie), سبات (coma, lethargy, sleep, sopor, torpor), ذهول (absence, abstractedness, amazement, astonishment, bewilderment, distraction, maze, stun, stupefaction, trance), خدر (anaesthesia, anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthesia, anesthetize, benumb, creep, deaden, drug, look out, narcotize, numb, numbness, opiate, stupefaction, stupefy, torpid, torpor), إنشداه (stupefaction, tenseness, wonder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ступор, унес (intoxication), вцепенение (petrifaction), пълна апатия, полусъзнание (semi-consciousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 昏迷 (Coma, Comatose, Comatous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | strnulost (numbness, torpidity, torpor), otupìlost (languor), omráèení, omámení (daze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stupor (stuporous state). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stupor (akinesis, rigidity, stuporous state, torpor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کندذهنی (Stupidity, Unintelligence), گیجی (Bafflement, Muddle, Quandary, Razzledazzle, Stun, Stupefaction), خرفتی , بی حسی (Anaesthesia, Apathy), بهت (Amazement, Consternation, Perplexity, Stupefaction), بلاهت (Tommyrot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | unenhorros (doze), tylsyys (apathy, bluntness, dullness), horros (doze, drowse, lethargy, torpor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stupeur (stupefaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stupor (acquired stupor, stuporous state), Stumpfheit (bluntness, dullness, languor, obtuseness, stolidness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νάρκη (mine, sopor, torpor), εμβροντησία (astonishment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ק"ות חושים (obtuseness, stupefaction, torpidity), ק"ות (bluntness, dullness, numbness, sourness, torpor), "מ"ום (dimness, dusk, gloaming, twilight, vagueness), ""מת, ""ום (stupefaction), ר"מת (lethargy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kábulat (daze, sopor, torpor, trip), bódulat (bemusement), szellemi dermedtség, lelki dermedtség, kábultság (dizziness, narcosis, stupefaction, torpor), eszméletlenség (coma, dead faint, faint, unconsciousness), bódultság (bemusement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kelenger (in a stupor), kelengar (in a stupor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stupore (amazement, astonishment, daze, stupefaction, surprise, wonder, wonderment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 昏睡 (coma, dead sleep, lethargy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そうし" (absent-mindedness, dejection, losing consciousness, slim figure, transmission, weight reduction), まひ (numbness, palsy, paralysis), ""すい (coma, dead sleep, lethargy), ""めい (confusion, kind words, stupefaction, unconsciousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thollaneys (dizziness, giddiness, headiness, stupefaction, vertigo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uporstay estupor (mental numbness, stuporous state). (various references) stupoare (stupefaction), uimire (amazement, astonishment, gape, surprise, wonder), prostraţie (torpor), amorţire (benumbing), amorţealã (drowsiness, heaviness, numbness, somnolence, somnolency, stupidity, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, weakness). (various references) ступор, состояние оцепенения, одурь, бесчувственное состояние. (various references) tuaineal (dizziness), ceal. (various references) stupor, uspavanost (dormancy, sleepiness, somnolence, somnolency), ukočenost (crick, numbness, stiffness, torpidity, torpor), tupost (bluntness, dullness, stolidity, thickness, torpidity). (various references) estupor (amazement, astonishment, insensibility, sleep, torpor). (various references) dvala (apathy, coma, dormancy, doze, lethargy, torpidity, torpor), apati (apathy). (various references) sersemlik (daze, dizziness, dullness, fuddle, giddiness, muddle, silliness, stupidity), sersemleme (dizziness, giddiness, stagger, stupefaction), uyuşukluk (deadness, dormancy, drowsiness, indolence, inertia, inertness, lethargy, numbness, sloth, sluggishness, somnolence, stupefaction, torpidity, torpidness, torpor), kendinden geçme (abandon, blackout, ecstasy, frenzy, rapture, transport), bilinçsizlik (nothingness, unconsciousness), baygınlık (coma, faint, fainting, insensibility, swoon, syncopal, syncope, unconsciousness). (various references) ступор, заціпеніння (daze, numbness, petrifaction, petrification, rigor). (various references) trạng thái sững sờ. (various references) syfrdandod (giddiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | narke. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | alienatio, stupor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 5, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | QamboV gar periescen auton kai pantaV touV sun autw epi th agra twn icquwn h sunelabon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Stupor enim circumdederat eum et omnes qui cum illo erant in captura piscium quam ceperant |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And he wundrude and ealle þa ðe mid him wæron on þam were þara fixa þe hi gefengon; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For he was on ech side astonyed, and alle that weren with hym, in the takyng of fischis whiche thei token. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Fro me for I am a synfull man. For he was vtterly astonyed and all that were wt him at ye draught of fisshe which they toke: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For he was full of wonder and so were all those who were with him, at the number of fish which they had taken; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 5, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | Kay siya nahibulong man ugod, ug ang tanan nga mga kauban niya, tungod sa mga isda nga ilang nakuha; |
| Croatian | Zbog lovine riba što ih uloviše bijaše se zapanjio on i svi koji bijahu s njime, |
| Danish | Thi en Rædsel var påkommen ham og alle dem, som vare med ham, over den Fiskedræt, som de havde fået; |
| Dutch | Want verbaasdheid had hem bevangen, en allen, die met hem waren, over de vangst der vissen, die zij gevangen hadden; |
| Finnish | Sillä kalansaaliin tähden, jonka he olivat saaneet, oli hämmästys vallannut hänet ja kaikki ne, jotka olivat hänen kanssaan, |
| French | Car l`épouvante l`avait saisi, lui et tous ceux qui étaient avec lui, cause de la pêche qu`ils avaient faite. |
| German | Denn es war ihn ein Schrecken angekommen, ihn und alle, die mit ihm waren, über diesen Fischzug, den sie miteinander getan hatten; |
| Haitian Creole | Yon sèl sezisman te pran Simon ak tout mesye ki te avèk li yo lè yo wè kantite pwason yo te pran. |
| Hungarian | Mert félelem fogta körül õt és mindazokat, a kik õ vele valának, a halfogás miatt, a melyet fogtak; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Simon dan semua orang yang bersama dia heran melihat banyaknya ikan yang mereka tangkap. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sebab tercengang-cenganglah ia beserta dengan orang-orang yang ada bersama-sama dengan dia, karena perolehan ikan yang didapatinya itu; |
| Italian | Grande stupore infatti aveva preso lui e tutti quelli che erano insieme con lui per la pesca che avevano fatto; |
| Manx Gaelic | Son ghow eshyn, as ooilley ny va mârish, yindys mooar jeh'n lught dy eeastyn v'ad er ghoaill: |
| Maori | Mau tonu hoki tona miharo me to ona hoa katoa, ki te haonga o nga ika i haoa nei e ratou: |
| Norwegian | For redsel kom over ham og alle dem som var med ham, for den fiskedrett som de hadde fått; |
| Portuguese | Pois, vista da pesca que haviam feito, o espanto se apoderara dele e de todos os que com ele estavam, |
| Rumanian | Fiindcq kl apucase spaima, pe el wi pe toyi ceice erau cu el, din pricina pescuirii, pe care o fqcuserq. |
| Shuar | Semunsha ni írutkamurijiai namakan Timiá Untsurín Wáinkiar ashamkarmiayi. Tuma asa Semunsha Nuní Tímiayi. |
| Swahili | Simoni pamoja na wenzake wote walishangaa kwa kupata samaki wengi vile. |
| Swedish | Ty för detta fiskafänges skull hade han och alla som voro med honom betagits av häpnad, |
| Uma | Simon mololita hewa toe, apa' hi'a pai' hawe'ea doo-na wilingkoroa mpohilo kawori' bau' to nawoko' jala' -ra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stupor": stuporous, stupors. (additional references) | |
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"Stupor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Satipo, Seuphor, stabor, Starpro, stelor, stucor, stuper, Tsuboi, tupor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stupor" (pronounced stuw"per) |
| 3 | -uw" p er | blooper, Cooper, duper, grouper, Hooper, looper, Scooper, super, trooper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sprout. | |
| Words within the letters "o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: ports, pours, pouts, prost, roups, roust, routs, sport, spout, spurt, stoup, stour, strop, torus, tours, turps. | |
-2 letters: opts, opus, orts, ours, oust, outs, port, post, pots, pour, pout, pros, purs, puts, rots, roup, rout, rust, ruts, sort, soup, sour, spot, spur, stop, tops, tors, tour, trop, tups. | |
-3 letters: ops, opt, ors, ort, our. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: hotspur, petrous, posture, pouters, proteus, spouter, sprouts, stupors, support, troupes, uproots. | |
+2 letters: apterous, corrupts, dropouts, hotspurs, outcrops, outdrops, outports, outpours, outprays, outpress, outstrip, postburn, postdrug, postural, postured, posturer, postures, poulters, products, protiums, proudest, pulsator, purports, pyritous, resprout, roupiest, sculptor, sportful, spouters, sprouted, superhot, supports, trappous, troupers, upstroke, upthrows. | |
+3 letters: computers, courtship, croupiest, dipterous, eruptions, hornpouts, imposture, mousetrap, outcapers, outgroups, outpowers, outpreens, outprices, outspread, outsprint, outstrips, outtrumps, paroquets, polluters, posturers, posturing, poultries, printouts, proestrus, prosateur, prosecute, proteuses, protrudes, proustite, pterosaur, pulmotors, pulsators, rainspout, rapturous, resprouts, rustproof, sculptors, spiritous, sporulate, sprouting, stuporous, subtropic, superport, supersoft, supinator, supported, supporter, trapuntos, troupials, tutorship, unstopper, upgrowths, upholster, uppermost, uprootals, uprooters, upstrokes, uptowners. | |
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