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
Daedone wanted to savor decrescendo, too, as well as stasis, stupor, spiritual awakening, and whatever other sensations the stroke brought out.
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Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
The cilantro is key because its chlorophyllic sharpness slaps the stupor out of the starchy beans.
—Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Oct. 2025
Symptoms of the more serious illness include high fever, headache, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness and paralysis, according to the CDC.
—Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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.
—Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
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Noun
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Soon enough, once a candidate has entered the race, boredom sets in and the speculation and desire for someone fresh and different starts anew.—
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Here’s to boredom, to wrong turns, to fruitful friction.—
Noun
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The notice explains that dogs who ingest plastic may exhibit symptoms including vomiting, loss of appetite, lethargy, or stomach discomfort.—
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Common symptoms of an EHV respiratory disease can include fever, coughing, nasal discharge, enlarged lymph nodes, lethargy, anorexia, conjunctivitis and lower limb swelling, according to the AAEP.—
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The only people for whom this situation isn’t terrifying are us, the audience, who feel nothing but the purgatorial torpor of sitting through a movie that’s too afraid of its own concept to do anything truly provocative with it.—
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Though the idiom of abuse has changed, the critics are as hostile as ever, while their targets react only with curious torpor.—
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“Stupor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stupor. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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