stupor

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stupor

/ˈstjuː.pə/ UK
/ˈstu.pɚ/ US
/ˈstju.pɚ/ US

Rhymes with -uːpə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin stupor (“insensibility, numbness, dullness”). Distantly related (from Proto-Indo-European, via Proto-Germanic) to stint, stub, and steep.

noun stupors · stupour

countable, uncountable A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; (particularly medicine) a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness. He fell into a drunken stupor.
countable, uncountable A state of extreme apathy or torpor resulting often from stress or shock.
Similar: daze

verb stupors · stuporing · stupored · stupour

transitive To place into a stupor; to stupefy.

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noun state of reduced consciousness or sensibility

Español	estupor
中文	昏迷 hūnmí, 麻痺 /麻痹 mábì
Português	estupor
Français	stupeur
Deutsch	Sopor
Ελληνικά	νάρκη nárki, λήθαργος líthargos
Română	stupoare
Русский	сту́пор stúpor, оцепене́ние ocepenénije

noun state of apathy or torpor

中文	恍惚 huǎnghū, 神志不清 shénzhì bùqīng

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@misc{stupor_2026,
  title = {stupor},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stupor},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}