stuporous

[ stoo-per-uhs, styoo- ]

adjective

1. 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.

2. characterized by mental inactivity, sluggishness, or indifference; apathetic:

   “Some students are stuporous in class, if they get there at all,” the professor complained.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stuporous¹

First recorded in 1710–20; stupor ( def ) + -ous ( def )

Example Sentences

The name typhus is from , a smoke or fog, and it indicates the befogged, stuporous condition of the patient.

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Stuporous conditions may introduce the latter, and, vice versa, Ganser complexes may creep into the stupor.

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He remained in this stuporous condition,  leading a more or less passive existence, for about a month after admission.

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Memory, for both recent and remote events, fair, with complete amnestic gaps for the stuporous periods.

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Has been uninterruptedly clear mentally since his last stuporous state, in November, 1908.

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