as in boredom
physical or mental inertness
shocked by news of impending layoffs, the workers shuffled through their shift in a quiet stupor
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Recent Examples of stupor
The same corporate event planners who used to book futurists with hologram slide decks are now on the hunt for celebrity performers who can yank an audience out of its AI stupor for ten electrifying minutes.
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Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
The missing kids turn out to be standing in near-catatonic stupor in the Lilly family’s basement.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
Ozzy canceled shows, or performed in a stupor, and sometimes attacked his bandmates.
—Scott Simon, NPR, 26 July 2025
By contrast, Sue’s insistence that everything will be all right is so plainly unrealistic that the audience is waiting for some actual catastrophe to shake her out of her stupor.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 25 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for stupor
Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
The missing kids turn out to be standing in near-catatonic stupor in the Lilly family’s basement.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
Ozzy canceled shows, or performed in a stupor, and sometimes attacked his bandmates.
—Scott Simon, NPR, 26 July 2025
By contrast, Sue’s insistence that everything will be all right is so plainly unrealistic that the audience is waiting for some actual catastrophe to shake her out of her stupor.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 25 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for stupor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stupor
Noun
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And yes, there were occasional hijinks spurred by youthful boredom and restlessness.—
Scott Huver,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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Because her motivations seem much more complicated than mere boredom in your adaptation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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People experiencing more severe infections may also suffer high fever, aches, headaches, lethargy, rashes and blood in their urine.—
Matthew Robinson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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Common signs can include fever, lethargy, loss of appetite, enlarged lymph nodes and spleen, pale gums (resulting from poor circulation), and sometimes vomiting or diarrhea.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Research with species such as the ground squirrel shows tau hyperphosphorylation occurs in the brain in torpor during hibernation and then reverses when the animals wake up.—
Robert Martone,
Scientific American,
10 Oct. 2025
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Rip wakes from his torpor not just on any day, but on an election day, which allows Irving to magnify his hero’s disorientation.—
John Swansburg,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Stupor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stupor. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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