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Definition of Stunned
1. Adjective. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock. "Stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses"
2. Adjective. Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow.
3. Adjective. In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock. "Was stupid from fatigue"
Definition of Stunned
1. Adjective. Unable to act or respond; dazed; shocked. ¹
2. Verb. (past of stun) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stunned
1. stun [v] - See also: stun
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stunned
Literary usage of Stunned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"They sat down on a bench; and they remained for some minutes with their eyes
closed, so much stunned that they had not the energy to say a word. ..."
2. The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States by Horace Greeley (1866)
"Major Tremaine, who bore this message, found the General stunned and senseless.
A cannon-ball had just now struck a pillar of the Chan- ..."
3. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"There was a stone in it with several sharp angles, one of which striking him, he
fell stunned like a dead man ; whereupon all the bystanders, ..."
4. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"Encas past : Thence bursting glorious, all at once let down, stunned with his
giddy larum half the town. Intrepid then, o'er seas and lands he flew : Europe ..."
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