obtunded

The word “obtunded” has 3 syllables: ob-tun-ded

It's pronounced as /əbˈtʌndɪd/


What is synonym and antonym for obtunded?

In the thesaurus, “obtunded” has 38 synonyms and 7 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for obtunded along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for obtunded

  • allayed
  • alleviated
  • anesthetized
  • asleep
  • assuaged
  • baffled
  • benumbed
  • blunted
  • buffered
  • chilled
  • cocainized
  • cushioned
  • dampened
  • dead
  • deadened
  • drugged
  • dulled
  • eased
  • gentled
  • inanimate
  • insensate
  • insensible
  • insensitive
  • lightened
  • mitigated
  • moderated
  • modulated
  • nipped
  • numb
  • numbed
  • relieved
  • senseless
  • softened
  • stupefied
  • tempered
  • torpid
  • unconscious
  • unfeeling

Antonyms for obtunded

  • awake
  • feeling
  • heightened
  • intensified
  • sensible
  • sensitive
  • sharpened

Meanings of obtunded

  • verb
    1. To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull.
  • adjective
    1. Far from alert or oriented to time and space, and exhibiting other signs of being confused, a state just short of frank delirium.

Example Sentences

  • The patient's senses were obtunded after receiving anesthesia for the surgery.
  • The cold weather obtunded the sensation in his fingers, making it difficult to grasp objects.
  • Despite the loud noises outside, she remained obtunded in her deep sleep.
  • The medication left him feeling obtunded, unable to fully engage in conversations.
  • His emotions felt obtunded after the shocking news, leaving him in a state of numbness.

On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to obtunded, such as: allayed, alleviated, anesthetized, asleep, assuaged, awake, baffled.

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  • abeyant
  • absolute
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  • insensitive
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  • killer
  • knackered
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  • nipped
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  • nothingness
  • numb
  • numbed
  • obsolete
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  • off
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  • on the shelf
  • out
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  • outright
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  • overfatigued
  • overtaxed
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  • overworked
  • parched
  • passed away
  • perfect
  • perfectly
  • perished
  • perpetual
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  • phantom
  • plain
  • played out
  • plumb
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  • pooped
  • poor
  • predominantly
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  • principally
  • profound
  • prostrate
  • pure
  • pushing up daisies
  • quiescent
  • quite
  • rainless
  • rank
  • real
  • reduced
  • regular
  • reposing
  • resting in peace
  • right
  • ruined
  • run-down
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  • sheer
  • simple
  • sleep
  • sleepy
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  • soundly
  • spectral
  • spent
  • spiritless
  • stark
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  • stone
  • stone-cold
  • straight
  • straight-out
  • straightly
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  • stupefied
  • substantially
  • sunbaked
  • sunk
  • superlative
  • supreme
  • surpassing
  • suspended
  • tapped out
  • tasteless
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  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thin
  • thirsty
  • thorough
  • thoroughgoing
  • thoroughly
  • through and through
  • tired
  • to bits
  • to pieces
  • to the hilt
  • to the max
  • torpid
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  • totally
  • unadulterated
  • unalive
  • unalloyed
  • unanimated
  • unconditional
  • unconscious
  • uncultivable
  • undeviatingly
  • undying
  • unfeeling
  • unfertile
  • unflavored
  • uninteresting
  • unmitigated
  • unoccupied
  • unproductive
  • unqualified
  • unqualifiedly
  • unremitting
  • unresponsive
  • unrestricted
  • unsavory
  • untillable
  • unusable
  • unused
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  • used up
  • useless
  • utter
  • utterly
  • vacant
  • vanished
  • vapid
  • veritable
  • very
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  • waste
  • waterless
  • watery
  • weak
  • weakened
  • wearied
  • weary
  • well
  • wholly
  • wide
  • wiped out
  • wooden
  • worn
  • worn to a frazzle
  • worn-out

deadened

  • abated
  • alleviated
  • anesthetized
  • apathetic
  • ashen
  • aside
  • asleep
  • bated
  • benumbed
  • bland
  • bleached
  • blunted
  • blurred
  • breathless
  • brutal
  • burned out
  • burnt out
  • callous
  • cantankerous
  • castrated
  • cauterized
  • chilled
  • churlish
  • cocainized
  • cold
  • cold fish
  • cold-blooded
  • cold-hearted
  • corpselike
  • crotchety
  • cruel
  • damped
  • dampened
  • daunted
  • dead
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  • debilitated
  • decreased
  • deep
  • dehydrated
  • delicate
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  • desiccated
  • devitalized
  • did in
  • dim
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  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dispirited
  • distant
  • drained
  • drugged
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dusty
  • dwindled
  • eased
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • epicene
  • exacting
  • exhausted
  • faded
  • faint
  • faltering
  • far-off
  • fatigued
  • feeble
  • feelingless
  • flat
  • frigid
  • gelded
  • gentle
  • ghastly
  • hard
  • hardened
  • hazy
  • heartless
  • hoarse
  • hushed
  • icy
  • ill-defined
  • immune to
  • impassible
  • impassive
  • imperceptible
  • impervious to
  • inanimate
  • inaudible
  • indistinct
  • inhuman
  • insensate
  • insensible
  • insensitive
  • insusceptible
  • iron-hearted
  • lenient
  • lessened
  • light
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  • lobotomized
  • low
  • low-pitched
  • lowered
  • merciless
  • mild
  • moderate
  • moderated
  • muffled
  • murmuring
  • mute
  • muted
  • muttering
  • nipped
  • nonreactive
  • numb
  • numbed
  • obdurate
  • obscure
  • obtunded
  • out of earshot
  • padded
  • pale
  • pallid
  • petrified
  • piano
  • pitiless
  • quiet
  • receded
  • reduced
  • remote
  • ruthless
  • sapped
  • sensationless
  • senseless
  • severe
  • shadowy
  • silenced
  • slight
  • smooth
  • soft
  • softened
  • soothing
  • spiritless
  • stifled
  • stony
  • strangled
  • stupefied
  • subdued
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  • surly
  • tenuous
  • thick-skinned
  • thin
  • torpid
  • tough
  • unamiable
  • unanimated
  • uncaring
  • unclear
  • uncompassionate
  • unconscious
  • uncordial
  • undermined
  • unemotional
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  • unkind
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  • unsusceptible
  • unsympathetic
  • vague
  • wan
  • waned
  • weak
  • weakened
  • whispered
  • white
  • wooden
  • wore
  • wore out

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