stunned

adjdazed

Synonyms for stunned

adj dazed

Antonyms for stunned

Word Origin & History

c.1300, "to daze or render unconscious" (from a blow, powerful emotion, etc.), probably a shortening of Old French estoner "to stun" (see astonish). Stunning popularized for "splendid, excellent" c.1849.

Example Sentences for stunned

But the man had been only stunned by a bullet that plowed its way across the top of his skull.

It was a mistake, of course; it wasn't true—somehow it wasn't true, but still it had stunned.

Across the room the four stunned Dyaks were recovering consciousness.

A moment of stunned quiet had succeeded the peal of thunder.

When Saxon had ceased to speak I sat as one stunned, trying to realise what he had said to me.

Another was stunned by a mass of masonry hurled at him by a giant cragsman.

Body o' me, but he kicked and plunged for all that he was three-quarters stunned.'

Stunned by the tragedy, none of the victims had made much of an outcry.

He was stunned by the suddenness of the catastrophe that had overtaken them.

We were stunned as he stood in the door; we felt as if he had struck us in the head with them.

stunned

Synonyms for stunned

Antonyms for stunned

aghast

bewildered

dazed

dumbfounded

dumbstruck

stunned

Synonyms for stunned

Antonyms for stunned

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