dazed vs dazzled
Definitions
adjective
- stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
- in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
Examples
One of my dazed wits tried to tell me the odds against this actually happening.
PHILADELPHIA mdash; When Davida Johnson walked into Dr. Kermit Gosnell's clinic to get an abortion in 2001, she saw what she described as dazed women...
Released in 1981, it's like the last Hollywood movie of the 1960s, in which the aspirations and ideals of that long-gone decade finally soured irrevocably on its dazed, burnt-out survivors.
Definitions
adjective
- stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering
- having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light
Examples
And the Bridal Show, for married women, seemed to do just that by focusing on the Indianess of contestants who were draped in variety of colourful sarees and mesmerizing gagra cholis that dazzled with every step.
I'd listened to the programme a fair few times during my last year at school '93-4 and been dazzled by its mix of inspired music, learned guests, poetry, comedy and all-round self-deprecating dementedness, but it wasn't until I left for university that I became a devout fan.
We're just too dazzled by beauty.
