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say it: stuhnd
stunned is an adjective meaning "filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock". It is pronounced /ˈstʌnd/ — stuhnd. It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stunned come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.