stuporous
Americanadjective
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in a stupor or daze; having a reduced ability to perceive or respond to sensory stimuli.
The overdosed patient will be drowsy, stuporous, or actually comatose.
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characterized by mental inactivity, sluggishness, or indifference; apathetic.
“Some students are stuporous in class, if they get there at all,” the professor complained.
Etymology
Origin of stuporous
First recorded in 1710–20; stupor ( def. ) + -ous ( def. )
Explanation
Something that's stuporous is slowed and muddled. When you first wake up in the morning, you may stumble around in a stuporous state. When a person is stuporous, she is confused, sluggish, and foggy. A patient who's had surgery often wakes up feeling stuporous, and going without sleep for several days will leave almost anyone stuporous. If you're stuporous, you're in a stupor, or not quite fully conscious. In Latin, stupor means "insensibility, numbness, or dullness," from stupere, or "be stunned."
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Example Sentences
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Stuporous conditions may introduce the latter, and, vice versa, Ganser complexes may creep into the stupor.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
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