catatonic
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8.9
- adjective
- /ˌkætəˈtɑnɪk/
- Specialized
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catatónico
- Clearly, the boy is in some kind of catatonic state.
- catatonic state
- almost catatonic
- goes catatonic
He almost catatonic lying on the floor of the factory in Fremont, Texas.
- He almost catatonic lying on the floor of the factory in Fremont, Texas.
Examples
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"Clinically, the girl is conscious; but she's in an almost catatonic state.
Fiction book (1991) -
Emotionally spent and dehydrated, I was nearly catatonic for the whole ride home.
Blog text (5) -
My client has been almost catatonic since I met him.
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When they found him, he was nearly catatonic.
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I heard she's catatonic again.
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You're becoming catatonic, probably going into shock.
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He's suffering from catatonic shock.
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I've seen people in a catatonic state with this disease, and it sounded remarkably similar.
Blog text (17) -
Apparently he'd been near-catatonic from stroke-caused dementia in a local rest home for the last few years.
Blog text (8) -
She was in a catatonic state, unable to respond to anyone after the traumatic event.
Synonyms
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Unconscious and cannot be woken because of serious illness or injury
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Unconscious or sleeping very deeply
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9.9
Partly unconscious and not fully able to respond to people
Deeply unconscious and not responding to sound or touch
Feeling very sleepy and not fully aware because of strong pain medicine
Compounds
- Archaic
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9.9
A form of serious mental illness with long periods of very little movement or speech
- Archaic
Long times when someone cannot move or speak, sometimes followed by short restless periods
How Unresponsive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word catatonic comes from the Greek parts kata- 'down' and tonos 'tension', and it shares the same root as the English word tone. So, being catatonic is like having your muscle tone turned down, which explains why a person is very still and unresponsive.