catatonic

catatonic
Synonyms and related words:
abeyant, affectless, anesthetized, apathetic, arctic, asleep, autistic, blunt, brain-damaged, brain-injured, cataleptic, certifiable, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, comatose, cool, dead, dispassionate, disturbed, doped, dopey, dormant, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, flat, foul, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, groggy, half-conscious, heartless, heavy, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inert, inexcitable, insusceptible, languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lifeless, logy, manic-depressive, mentally ill, mentally sick, narcotized, neurotic, nirvanic, nonemotional, objective, oblivious, obtuse, out, out cold, out of it, out of touch, paranoiac, paranoid, passionless, passive, phlegmatic, psychopathic, psychotic, schiz, schizoid, schizophrenic, schizy, sedentary, self-absorbed, semiconscious, senseless, slack, sleeping, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, soulless, spaced out, spiritless, stagnant, standing, static, stoned, strung out, suspended, tame, torpid, unaffectionate, unaroused, unconscious, unemotional, unfeeling, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, zonked, zonked out

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • catatonic — n. a person suffering from catatonia. [PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • catatonic — catatónic adj. m., pl. catatónici; f. sg. catatónică, pl. catatónice Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa: Dicţionar ortografic  CATATÓNIC, Ă adj. Referitor la catatonie. [< fr. catatonique] …   Dicționar Român

  • catatonic — cat a*ton ic adj. 1. of or pertaining to catatonia; suffering from catatonia. [WordNet 1.5] 2. appearing mentally stupefied, unresponsive, and motionless, or almost so; seemingly unaware of one s environment. [Colloq.] [PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • catatonic — (adj.) 1908, from Mod.L. catatonia, replacing katatonia (1880s), which was formed directly from Gk. kata down (see CATA (Cf. cata )) + tonos tone (see TENET (Cf. tenet)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • catatonic — [adj] unaware comatose, confused, hung, suspended, unconscious, wedged; concept 402 …   New thesaurus

  • catatonic — cata·ton·ic .kat ə tän ik adj of, relating to, marked by, or affected with catatonia <catatonic schizophrenia> <catatonic rigidity> <catatonic patients> cata·ton·i·cal·ly i k(ə )lē adv catatonic n a catatonic individual * * *… …   Medical dictionary

  • catatonic — [[t]kæ̱tətɒ̱nɪk[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you describe someone as being in a catatonic state, you mean that they are not moving or responding at all, usually as a result of illness, shock, or drugs. [MEDICAL or, LITERARY] ...and the traumatised heroine… …   English dictionary

  • catatonic — adjective Date: 1904 1. of, relating to, being, resembling, or affected by schizophrenia characterized especially by a marked psychomotor disturbance that may involve stupor or mutism, negativism, rigidity, purposeless excitement, and… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • catatonic — cat|a|ton|ic [ˌkætəˈtɔnık US ˈta: ] adj not able to move or talk because of an illness, shock etc catatonic stupor/trance …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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