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Definition: Stunned |
StunnedAdjective1. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock; "an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation"; "I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral"; "astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing"; "stood in stunned silence"; "stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses". 2. Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow. 3. In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stunned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Synonyms: StunnedSynonyms: amazed (adj), astonied (adj), astonished (adj), astounded (adj), dazed (adj), kayoed (adj), knocked out(p) (adj), out(p) (adj), stupefied (adj), stupid(p) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stunned |
| English words defined with "stunned": amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded ♦ bedaze ♦ daze, dazed ♦ foggy ♦ groggy ♦ logy ♦ numb ♦ petrified ♦ Stound, stun, stupefied, stupid, stuporous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stunned": electric fish screen ♦ Nabal ♦ SHACKLER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You will be stunned. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) So that lovers will be stunned by you? (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) Color me stunned. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) They were shocked and stunned. (The Rutles; writing credit: Eric Idle) | |
Lyrics | stunned, they're stunned (Real world; performing artist: Matchbox 20) | |
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 | Afraid; alarmed; apprehensive; blanched; dismayed; distressed; frightened; horrified; intimidated; nervous; panic-stricken; petrified; run scared; scared; scared stiff; shocked; spooked; startled; stunned; suspicious; terrified; terror-stricken; timid; ti. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | Ford looked stunned. "Where have you been?" he demanded. "Making some coffee," said Arthur, still wearing his very placid face. He had long ago realized that the only way of being in Ford's company successfully was to keep a large stock of very placid faces and wear them at all times. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There had been but little caution in the transition, and they would have been stunned if they had not been dazzled. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma turned stunned eyes toward the river. |
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Civil Liberties | Germany | In November 2000, the Federal Administrative Court ruled that the Islamic Community of Hesse was not a religious community as provided for in the animal protection laws and could not, therefore, receive a waiver to laws requiring an animal to be stunned before slaughter. (references) |
Political Economy | Zimbabwe | President Mugabe and his ruling ZANU-PF party were clearly stunned by the defeat, and feared that their 20-year stranglehold on power might be threatened by an increasingly popular opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in the June 2000 parliamentary elections. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Stunned" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 48.42% of the time. "Stunned" is used about 633 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 48.42% | 307 | 16,496 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 23.97% | 152 | 25,494 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 23.5% | 149 | 25,810 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.79% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (common) | 0.32% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 633 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "stunned": be stunned ♦ be stunned with ♦ become stunned. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "stunned": effects-stunned, half-stunned. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stunned | 31 |
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| Language | Translations for "stunned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | jam i tronditur (be stunned, be stupefied, be taken aback). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مصعوق (shocked, thunderstruck), مذهول (amazed, astonished, flabbergasted), مشدوه (amazed, astonished, astounded, flabbergasted, puzzled, shocked, startled, thunderstruck, wonder struck), طائش (bad, careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hasty, heedless, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, libertine, light, light minded, light-headed, lunatic, mad, madcap, muddle-headed, popinjay, random, rash, rattle-brained, reckless, scatter-brain, scatter-brained, scatty, stray, thoughtless, unadvised, unwise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смаян съм (be stunned, be stupefied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 震惊 (Astound, Astounded, Astounding, Egregious, stun, stunning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | být zmatený (be puzzled, be stunned, be stupefied), být ohromený (be struck dumb, be stunned, be stupefied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fjerkræ bedøves i gruppen (poultry stunned in group), enkeltvis bedøves dyr (individually stunned animal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | groepsgewijs bedwelmd pluimvee (poultry stunned in group), afzonderlijk bedwelmd dier (individually stunned animal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | huumaantua (be stunned, be stupefied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stupéfié, médusé (stupefied), hébété (stupid), groggy, assommé, abruti (stupid), étourdi, éberlué (starry eyed, stumps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | benommen (bemused, dazed, giddily, groggy, light-headed, muzzy, numb, punch-drink), betäubte (anesthetized, deafened, doped, drugged, intoxicated, numbed, stupefied, torpidly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκστατικόσ (ecstatic, rapt, rapturous, ravishing), εμβρόντητοσ (aghast, dazed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מוכ" ת""מ" (aghast, dazed, stupefied), "מום (bewildering, confounding, frightening, shocked, slaphappy, stunning, thunderstruck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kábult (comatose, dazed, dizzy, dopey, dopy, numb, numbed, slap happy, stupefied, stupid), döbbent (astonished, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, shocked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | terpukau (mesmerized). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stordito (dazed, giddy, heedless, scatterbrained), intontito (dazed, groggy, muzzy, numb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 茫然自失 (be stunned, be stupified), 目が点に成る (to be stunned and utterly surprised), 動転 (be upset, being surprised and stunned, change, transition), 呆れ" (amazed or stunned expression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぼうぜ"じしつ (be stunned, be stupified), どうて" (be upset, being surprised and stunned, change, deadlock, draw, heaven-shaking event, the same shop, the same store, tie, transition), めがて"になる (to be stunned and utterly surprised), あきれがお (amazed or stunned expression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 기 시키". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unnedstay aturdido (bewildered, deafened, muzzy). (various references) оглушать;ошеломлять ошеломленный. (various references) iznenađen (taken aback). (various references) pasmado (aghast, thunderstruck), aturdido (abashed, bewildered, confound, confused, dopey, dopy, flurried, fuddled, headless, numbs, torpid), atontado (befuddled, besotted, dopey, dopy, stupid). (various references) överväldigad (be stunned, overwhelmed). (various references) serseme dönmüş, afallanmış, ağzı açık kalmış (Agape, fascinated, floored, open mouthed). (various references) syfrdan (dazed, giddy), pensyfrdan (dazed), hurt (hurt, stupid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | attonbitus, attonitus, stupefactus. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Stunned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sluned, stunden, stune, stunnod. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stunned" (pronounced stu"nd) |
| 4 | -t u" n d | rotund. |
| 3 | -u" n d | bund, defund, dunned, fund, gunned, refund, shunned, Superfund. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dunnest. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: nudest, sunned, tunned, unsent. | |
-2 letters: dents, duets, dunes, dunts, nudes, tends, tuned, tunes, unset. | |
-3 letters: dens, dent, dues, duet, dune, duns, dunt, dust, ends, nest, nets, nude, nuns, nuts, send, sent, sned, stud, stun, sued, suet, sunn, teds, tend, tens, tune, tuns, unde, used. | |
-4 letters: den, due, dun, eds, end, ens, net, nun, nus. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: dunnites, unstoned. | |
+2 letters: dubonnets, inundates, nonsuited, outsinned, suntanned, tendinous, unkindest, unscented, unstained, unstinted. | |
+3 letters: candlenuts, fundaments, indentures, insinuated, nonstudent, outspanned, rotundness, shotgunned, subtending, underpants, understand, undertones, unfastened, unhandiest, unsoundest, unstrained, untidiness. | |
+4 letters: antistudent, delinquents, denaturants, denouements, denudations, denudements, discontinue, inducements, inductances, infinitudes, mundanities, nonstudents, outspending, stuntedness, superintend, tendencious, tendentious, tenpounders, uncontested, undercounts, understands, unfoldments, uninspected, uninsulated, unkindliest, unsegmented, unsteadying, unsweetened, untarnished, unwitnessed. | |
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