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Definition of Stuporous
1. Adjective. Stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion).
Similar to: Lethargic, Unenrgetic
Derivative terms: Grogginess, Grogginess, Loginess, Stupor
Definition of Stuporous
1. Adjective. having slow or confused reactions, as if in a stupor; groggy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stuporous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stuporous
Literary usage of Stuporous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Insanity, its classification, diagnosis, and treatment by Edward Charles Spitzka (1883)
"CHAPTER V. stuporous INSANITY. stuporous insanity consists in the simple impairment
or suspension of the mental energies, unmarked by any emotional or other ..."
2. A Treatise on mental diseases by Henry Johns Berkley (1900)
"... be sufficient: Simple melancholia without delusions. Delusional melancholia.
Hypochondriacal melancholia. Agitated melancholia. stuporous melancholia. ..."
3. Clinical Psychiatry; a Text-book for Students and Physicians by Emil Kraepelin, Allen Ross Diefendorf (1907)
"stuporous states may also develop in this delusional type of depressive cases.
The patients then develop a condition of befogged consciousness, ..."
4. Clinical Psychiatry; a Text-book for Students and Physicians by Emil Kraepelin, Allen Ross Diefendorf (1907)
"Suicidal attempts are not infrequent. stuporous states may also develop in this
delusional type I of depressive ..."
5. Insanity and allied neuroses: A Practical and Clinical Manual by George Henry Savage, Edwin Goodall (1907)
"... active, passive, and stuporous —Melancholia with delusions—With suicidal
tendencies — Climacteric melancholia — Senile melancholia — "Maniacal ..."
6. The American Gynaecological and Obstetrical Journal (1901)
"Aroused with difficulty, quickly relapsing into a stuporous condition. Tongue coated,
gums and lips pale, teeth in good condition. ..."
7. Alienists and Neurologists of America: Proceedings of Sixth Annual Meeting by Chicago Medical Society (1917)
"At the. end of this period he became stuporous, refusing to talk, was very
negativistic and strongly opposed to taking of food or water. ..."
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