DAZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dazed mean? 

• DAZED (adjective)
  The adjective DAZED has 2 senses:

1. in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock

2. stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)

  Familiarity information: DAZED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock

Synonyms:

dazed; stunned; stupefied; stupid

Context example:

was stupid from fatigue

Similar:

confused (mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)

Synonyms:

dazed; foggy; groggy; logy; stuporous

Similar:

lethargic; unenergetic (deficient in alertness or activity)

 Context examples 

Since then she has looked like a woman in a dream, half dazed, and with terror always lurking in her eyes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With a dazed face the banker made out the required check.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But in the meantime, awaiting the publication of the books, he must do something more than live dazed and stupid in the sort of uncaring trance into which he had fallen.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With the flushed, dazed face of a man who is just recovering from recent intoxication, the landlord was tearing madly about, his hat gone, and his hair and beard flying in the wind.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After surviving a disaster, people may feel dazed or even numb.

(Coping with Disasters, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

You may feel dazed or not your normal self for several days or weeks after the injury.

(Concussion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

For a space of possibly three seconds of time she had been dazed and paralysed by the horrible and inconceivable form in which the unexpected had made its appearance.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The older man seemed numbed and dazed with a heavy, sullen expression upon his strongly-marked face.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was dazed for a moment, but when he saw the sunlight streaming in through the edges of the shutters he thought he was late, and expressed his fear.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

After a particularly fierce blow, he crawled to his feet, too dazed to rush.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)