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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

aturdido

Pronunciation / Transliteration: atuɾˈdiðo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Out-of-it/ˌaʊt.əv.ɪt/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Se despertó muy aturdido después de la anestesia."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Not fully conscious, aware, or mentally alert, often due to fatigue, illness, shock, or intoxication.

    "He was so exhausted after the long flight that he felt completely out of it during the meeting."
  2. 2

    Unaware of or disconnected from current trends, social circles, or reality.

    "Living in a remote cabin for a year left her feeling totally out of it when she returned to city life."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The phrase originated in mid-20th-century American slang, combining the prepositional phrase 'out of' with the neutral pronoun 'it' to denote a state of being disconnected. Initially used in jazz culture to describe someone unaware of current trends, its meaning later broadened to include states of mental dissociation, fatigue, or intoxication.

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