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    2. Insensibility, dulness, obtuseness, torpor, stupidity.

Stupefactive, a. Stupefying.

Stupefy, v. a. [Written also Stupify.] Dull, blunt, benumb, muddle, hebetate, make stupid make dull, make torpid.

Stupefying, a. Stupefactive.

Stupendous, a.

    1. Astonishing, surprising, amazing, wonderful, wondrous, marvellous, overwhelming, astounding.
    2. Huge, vast, prodigious, tremendous.

Stupid, a.

    1. Senseless, witless, dull, simple, doltish, stolid, obtuse, foolish, sluggish, insensible, brutish, insensate, muddy, muddy-brained, muddy-headed, sottish, slow of apprehension, void of understanding, fat-witted.
    2. Unentertaining, prosaic, pointless, prosy, flat, heavy, insipid, tame, vapid, bald, uninteresting, humdrum, dull, foolish, tiresome, tedious.
    3. Stupefied, drowsy, torpid, heavy, comatose, lethargic, morbidly sleepy.

Stupidity, n.

    1. Dulness, obtuseness, insensibility, sottishness, blockishness, doltishness, senselessness, sluggishness of understanding, slowness of apprehension.
    2. Lifelessness, heaviness, insipidity, tameness, vapidness, want of interest, stupidness.
    3. Stupor, lethargy, torpor, stupefaction, morbid drowsiness, coma.

Stupify, v. a. See Stupefy.

Stupor, n. Lethargy, narcosis, torpor, numbness, coma, stupefaction.

Stupration, n. (Rare.) Ravishment, ravishing, rape, defloration, violation, constupration, stuprum.

Sturdily, ad. Hardily, stoutly, lustily, resolutely, obstinately.

Sturdiness, n. Stoutness, hardiness, strength.

Sturdy, a.

    1. Bold (from coarseness or rudeness), obstinate, dogged, stubborn, pertinacious, firm, stiff, hardy, persevering.