benumbed

1. 1.

   lacking sensation

   “my foot is asleep”

   “numb with cold”

   Synonymsasleepnumb

   Similarinsensible
2. 2.

   having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure

   “the mind of the audience is becoming dulled”

   “the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond”

   Synonymsdulled

   Similaruninterested

Other forms of benumbed

comparative

benumbedder·

superlative

benumbeddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about benumbed

What does benumbed mean?

benumbed means "lacking sensation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in benumbed?

benumbed has 2 syllables: benum-bed. The stress falls on "benum".

What is another word for benumbed?

Close synonyms include asleep, numb, dulled. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is benumbed a common word?

benumbed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.