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say it: STOO-pur
stupor is a noun meaning "the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally". It is pronounced /ˈstupɚ/ — STOO-pur. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
“his mother's death left him in a daze”
“he was numb with shock”
marginal consciousness
“his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion as by the blows”
“someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor”
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 stupor 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.