STUPEFIED Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in stunned

affected with sudden and great wonder or surprise gazed, stupefied, as humanoids with large heads emerged from the crashed UFO

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as in dazed

suffering from mental confusion when the plane began to nose-dive, the stupefied passengers were unsure how to act

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verb

past tense of stupefy

as in amazed

to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected stupefied by the ruling that he could not compete because he missed the qualifying age by two days

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Recent Examples of stupefied

Adjective

The boy is stupefied, snot intermingling with the puke dripping from his mouth to his navel. —

Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025

Verb

Fresh juices, quality rums, pristine drinkmaking technique — the Cove stupefied with its faultless approach. —

Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 30 Mar. 2026 British explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett, who wandered the Amazon for 22 years at the beginning of the 20th century before vanishing without a trace, wrote that the breath of the anaconda stupefied its prey. —

Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026 Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone‘s doom-laden black comedy-thriller Bugonia stupefied and delighted the Venice Film Festival on Thursday night, drawing a rousing six-minute standing ovation after its world premiere inside the Italian water city’s Sala Grande cinema. —

Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025 Even Adorno might have been stupefied. —

Jon Raymond august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025

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Adjective

The situation only worsens after 9/11, the immediate, unreal impact of which Rivilis sharply captures with a steady pan across a classroom of stunned students, their faces in various states of stricken disbelief, if not simply in their hands.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 May 2026
Josh Anderson, Jake Evans and Nick Suzuki scored in the second period Thursday night to rally the Canadiens to a 6-3 win over the Buffalo Sabres in Game 5 before a stunned KeyBank Center crowd.

— Arpon Basu, New York Times, 15 May 2026