'Stunned' definitions:
Definition of 'stunned'
From: WordNet
adjective
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" [syn: amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned]
adjective
adjective
Definition of 'Stunned'
From: GCIDE
- Stun \Stun\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stunned; p. pr. & vb. n. Stunning.] [OE. stonien, stownien; either fr. AS. stunian to resound (cf. D. stenen to groan, G. st["o]hnen, Icel. stynja, Gr. ?, Skr. stan to thunder, and E. thunder), or from the same source as E. astonish. [root]168.]
- 1. To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head. [1913 Webster]
- One hung a poleax at his saddlebow, And one a heavy mace to stun the foe. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing. [1913 Webster]
- And stunned him with the music of the spheres. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder. [1913 Webster]
- William was quite stunned at my discourse. --De Foe. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stunned'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aghast,
- appalled,
- ashen,
- astounded,
- awed,
- awestricken,
- awestruck,
- blanched,
- cowed,
- dazed,
- deadly pale,
- deaf,
- deaf and dumb,
- deaf-eared,
- deaf-mute,
- deafened,
- dull-eared,
- earless,
- frozen,
- gray with fear,
- hard of hearing,
- horrified,
- horror-struck,
- intimidated,
- pale as death,
- pallid,
- paralyzed,
- petrified,
- scared stiff,
- scared to death,
- stone-deaf,
- stupefied,
- surd,
- terrified,
- terror-crazed,
- terror-haunted,
- terror-ridden,
- terror-riven,
- terror-shaken,
- terror-smitten,
- terror-struck,
- terror-troubled,
- thick of hearing,
- tone-deaf,
- undone,
- unhearing,
- unmanned,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- word-deaf