Drowsy vs. Stupor

Drowsyadjective

Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness

‘I was feeling drowsy and so decided to make a cup of coffee to try to wake myself up.’;

Stupornoun

A state of reduced consciousness or sensibility.

Drowsyadjective

Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific.

‘It was a warm, drowsy summer afternoon.’; ‘drowsy medicine’;

Stupornoun

A state in which one has difficulty in thinking or using one’s senses.

Drowsyadjective

Boring.

Stupornoun

Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.

Drowsyadjective

Dull; stupid. en

Stupornoun

Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.

Drowsyadjective

Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.

‘Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.’; ‘To our age's drowsy bloodStill shouts the inspiring sea.’;

Stupornoun

the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally;

‘his mother's deathleft him in a daze’; ‘he was numb with shock’;

Drowsyadjective

Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.

‘The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good.’;

Stupornoun

marginal consciousness;

‘his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion and by the blows’; ‘someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor’;

Drowsyadjective

Dull; stupid.

Stupor

Stupor is the lack of critical mental function and a level of consciousness, in which an affected person is almost entirely unresponsive and responds only to intense stimuli such as pain. The word derives from the Latin stupor ().

‘numbness, insensibility’;

Drowsyadjective

half asleep;

‘made drowsy by the long ride’; ‘it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor’; ‘a tired dozy child’; ‘the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair’;

Drowsyadjective

showing lack of attention or boredom;

‘the yawning congregation’;