Difference between Stuporous and Obtunded

What is the difference between Stuporous and Obtunded?

Stuporous as an adjective is having slow or confused reactions, as if in a stupor; groggy while Obtunded as an adjective is describing someone who is far from alert or oriented to time and space, and exhibits other signs being confused, a state just short of frank delirium.

Stuporous

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having slow or confused reactions, as if in a stupor; groggy

Obtunded

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Describing someone who is far from alert or oriented to time and space, and exhibits other signs being confused, a state just short of frank delirium.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull.

We hope you now know whether to use Stuporous or Obtunded in your sentence.

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