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  • (figuratively) Motionless and unresponsive, as from shock; withdrawn.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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