catatonic
IPA: kætʌtˈɑnɪk
noun
- (medicine) A patient in a state of catatonia.
adjective
- (medicine) Of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia; having a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.
- (figuratively) Motionless and unresponsive, as from shock; withdrawn.
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Examples of "catatonic" in Sentences
- Marlo is left in a catatonic state.
- It may progress to catatonic rigidity.
- Most of them are also quite catatonic.
- Benny then fell into a catatonic state.
- These friends lapse into catatonic states.
- Then there's the often catatonic PR system.
- Lindsay then collapsed into a catatonic state.
- The name is a reference to the catatonic state.
- This left him nearly catatonic again, muttering in binary code.
- The character was in a catatonic state at the end of the season.
- When I was finally out of the office, I went home and entered some kind of catatonic state.
- But it didn't stop me from dropping the word "catatonic" into the conversation at least once a day.
- Grace Reid stared back at him, her face white as a corpse, her expression almost catatonic with terror.
- They know for sure that they prefer his brand of leadership, warts and all, to the kind of catatonic gerontokleptocracy that preceded it.
- Peculiar so-called catatonic states of muscular tension develop, in which the patients remain expressionless and motionless in all sorts of positions.
- Tea has 4000 years of History and very few associated Deaths or maimings whilst H&S has knocked countless souls in catatonic stupification with its idiocy.
- For example, in psychiatric terms, a zombi might be called a catatonic schizophrenic; both conditions are characterized by incoherence and catalepsy with alternate moments of stupor and activity.
- We almost didn't notice the accessory the first time we watched the video -- after someone mentioned Major Nelson in a Speedo, our brains went briefly catatonic, which is our reflexive defense mechanism when faced with unsettling mental images.
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