STUPOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stupor mean? 

• STUPOR (noun)
  The noun STUPOR has 2 senses:

1. the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally

2. marginal consciousness

  Familiarity information: STUPOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUPOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

daze; shock; stupor

Context example:

he was numb with shock

Hypernyms ("stupor" is a kind of...):

stupefaction (a feeling of stupefied astonishment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marginal consciousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

grogginess; semiconsciousness; stupefaction; stupor

Context example:

someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor

Hypernyms ("stupor" is a kind of...):

unconsciousness (a state lacking normal awareness of the self or environment)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

His medicines had failed;—the fever was unabated; and Marianne only more quiet—not more herself—remained in a heavy stupor.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I know that I was lost in a great wonder, almost a stupor,—this, then, was a woman?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Hunter, on recovering from his stupor, was also quite positive as to the ownership of the cravat.

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

He was too tired to feel sleepy, and he lay, scarcely thinking, in a semi-stupor of weariness, until it was time for supper.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

On the bed beside the window lay Jonathan Harker, his face flushed and breathing heavily as though in a stupor.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She lay in that heavy stupor, alike unconscious of hope and joy, doubt and danger.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A type of schizophrenia characterized by abnormality of motor behavior which may involve particular forms of stupor, rigidity, excitement or inappropriate posture.

(Catatonic Type Schizophrenia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

She was fast relapsing into stupor; nor did her mind again rally: at twelve o'clock that night she died.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Gradually weariness grew upon me; a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my mind even in the midst of my terrors, until sleep at last supervened and in my sea-tossed coracle I lay and dreamed of home and the old Admiral Benbow.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She then entreated me to come upstairs, sobbing that Mr. Barkis had always liked me and admired me; that he had often talked of me, before he fell into a stupor; and that she believed, in case of his coming to himself again, he would brighten up at sight of me, if he could brighten up at any earthly thing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)