- amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned - 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"
Antonyms: unsurprised, not surprised (indirect, via surprised)
- knocked out, kayoed, KO'd, out, stunned - knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
Antonym: conscious (indirect, via unconscious)
- dazed, stunned, stupefied, stupid - in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue"
Antonyms: clearheaded, clear-thinking (indirect, via confused)
- stun, stupefy - make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
--1 is one way to immobilize, immobilise
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- shock, stun, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback - surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
--2 is one way to surprise
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun stunner2
The bad news will stun him
The good news will stun her
The performance is likely to stun Sue
- sandbag, stun - hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
--3 is one way to hit
Sample sentence:
The fighter managed to stun his opponent
- stun, bedaze, daze - overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her"
--4 is one way to desensitize, desensitise
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun stunner1
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody