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catatonic

[ kat-uh-ton-ik ]

adjective

  1. having catatonia, a syndrome characterized by muscular rigidity and mental stupor:

    The schizophrenic remained in a catatonic state.

  2. appearing to be in a daze or stupor; unresponsive:

    She had the catatonic expression of an avant-garde model.



noun

  1. a person having or experiencing catatonia.
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Other Word Forms

  • ··ٴDz··· adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of catatonic1

First recorded in 1905–10; cataton(ia) ( def ) + -ic ( def )
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My Hollywood ending was far from glamorous: me, catatonic on Nick’s couch, realizing I had given it all up for an honest-to-God psychopath.

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The brevity is, of course, a function of Joe Biden’s catatonic debate performance, ensuing Democratic panic and the president’s overnight replacement in the shank of summer by his vice presidential understudy, Kamala Harris.

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“Connection makes us feel safe. When we don’t, we engage in dysregulated behavior, like self-injury, which in extreme cases become catatonic.”

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, one step away from a catatonic state of unregulated drooling, said he’d vote for Trump again — though his loathing of Trump is public and well known.

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Richards was standing perfectly still in the dark, seemingly catatonic, wearing a blue polo shirt and sunglasses and holding a knife in his left hand.

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