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Definitions: Dazed |
DazedAdjective1. In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue". 2. Stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dazed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: DazedSynonyms: foggy (adj), groggy (adj), logy (adj), stunned (adj), stupefied (adj), stupid(p) (adj), stuporous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncertainty | Vague; indeterminate, indefinite; ambiguous, equivocal; undefined, undefinable; confused; (indistinct); mystic, oracular; dazed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dazed |
| English words defined with "dazed": Assot ♦ Dasewe, dazedly ♦ grogginess ♦ moon about, moon around, mope ♦ punch-drunk ♦ silly, slaphappy, stunned, stupefied, stupid ♦ torpidly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dazed": John-a-Droynes. (references) |
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Screenplays | I felt dazed, like I just came out of a 4 hour movie I didn't understand. (The Basketball Diaries; writing credit: Bryan Goluboff) The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. (Patton; writing credit: Ladislas Farago; Omar N. Bradley) | |
Lyrics | If a tend to look dazed I've read it someplace ("What's Love Got to Do With It"; performing artist: Tina Turner) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dazed and Confused (1993) | |
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Health | Within minutes, the attack is over, and the person regains consciousness but is exhausted and dazed. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dazed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 86.63% of the time. "Dazed" is used about 187 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 86.63% | 162 | 24,580 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.95% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 5.88% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.53% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 187 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "dazed": be dazed. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "dazed": half-dazed, love-dazed, sun-dazed. | |
| 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 |
dazed and confused | 722 |
dazed and confused soundtrack | 118 |
dazed and confused movie | 39 |
dazed and confused picture | 39 |
cast confused dazed | 23 |
dazed | 16 |
dazed and confused pic | 13 |
car confused dazed | 6 |
dazed and confused poster | 5 |
dazed confused sound | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dazed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | verward (perplexed, upset), verbysterd (perplexed, upset), deurmekaar (perplexed, upset). (various references) | |
Arabic | منبهر (starry eyed, thunderstruck), مصاب بالدوار (giddy, vertiginous), مبهور (be dazzled, breathless, dazzled, gasping). (various references) | |
Chinese | 发昏 (Dazing). (various references) | |
Czech | být omámený (be dazed, be dazzled). (various references) | |
Dutch | beteuterd (perplexed, taken aback, upset), beduusd (perplexed, upset), bedremmeld (perplexed, upset). (various references) | |
Esperanto | konfuzita (perplexed, upset). (various references) | |
Finnish | pökerryksissä (stupefied), huumaantunut (dizzy). (various references) | |
French | hébété, ahuri, étourdi. (various references) | |
Frisian | ferbjustere (perplexed, upset). (various references) | |
German | benommene. (various references) | |
Greek | ζαλισμένοσ (dizzy, giddy, muzzy, tipsy, vertiginous, woozy), εμβρόντητοσ (aghast, stunned). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוכ" ת""מ" (aghast, stunned, stupefied). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kábult (comatose, dizzy, dopey, dopy, numb, numbed, slap happy, stunned, stupefied, stupid), bódult (numb, numbed, stupefied). (various references) | |
Indonesian | termangu-mangu (speechless, taken aback), termangu (speechless, taken aback), gerogi (dizzy), engak (conotase, drowsy, sleepy), bengong (crestfallen, expressionless, vacant). (various references) | |
Italian | turbato (distraught, disturbed, disturbing, perplexed, upset), confuso (abashed, addled, confounded, confused, fuzzy, haywire, hazy, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indistinct, messy, pell mell, perplexed, promiscuous, shamefaced, upset, woolly, wooly). (various references) | |
Malay | bingung (perplexed, upset). (various references) | |
Norwegian | omtumlet. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | azedday.(various references) | |
Russian | ошеломлять обалделый. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ošamućen (barmy, besotted, dizzy, woozy). (various references) | |
Swedish | yrvaken, omtöcknad (be stupefied, dim, stupid), förvirrad (baffled, bemused, besotted, confused, disconcerted, distracted, dizzy, mixed up, muddle-headed, perplexed, perturbed, upset, woolly minded, woozy). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gamaюmak (be dazed, be disgusted, overwhelmed). (various references) | |
Welsh | syfrdan (giddy, stunned), pensyfrdan (stunned). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adtoniti, adtonitis, turbidam, turbido. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dazed": dazedly, dazedness, dazednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Dazed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: azed, daaze, daced, daed, daez, daeza, daged, daied, daize, daped, D'arzew, darzi, Dase, dauze, daved, dazee, dazel, dazem, dazen, Dazer, dazi, dazix, dazled, dazo, dazu, deze, dezed, disad, dized, dizey, doaze, duzed, Odazzi, tazed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dazed" (pronounced dā"zd) |
| 3 | -ā" z d | amazed, appraised, blazed, braised, crazed, fazed, gazed, glazed, grazed, phased, phrased, praised, raised, razed, reappraised, unfazed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-z" | |
-1 letter: adze, daze, dead. | |
-2 letters: add, adz, dad, zed. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-z" | |
+2 letters: dazedly, dazzled. | |
+3 letters: anodized, deglazed, dialyzed, dualized, hazarded, vizarded. | |
+4 letters: bedazzled, dazedness, faradized, hydrazide, idealized. | |
+5 letters: advertized, denazified, diabolized, diazotized, dogmatized, dramatized, feudalized, hydrazides, outdazzled, randomized, vandalized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 7A 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- --.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01111010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a z e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 007A 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3867927170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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