Sometimes in the summer it gets so hot that people lose all their energy and get catatonic.
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Catatonic
//kæ.təˈtɑn.ɪk//
Synonyms for "catatonic" (120 found)
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Related words (60)
mentally illmentally sicknarcotizedneuroticnirvanicnonemotionalobjectiveobliviousobtuseoutout coldout of itout of touchparanoiacparanoidpassionlesspassivephlegmaticpsychopathicpsychotic
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schizschizoidschizophrenicschizysedentaryself-absorbedsemiconscioussenselessslacksleepingsluggishslumberingsmolderingsoullessspaced outspiritlessstagnantstandingstaticstonedstrung outsuspendedtametorpidunaffectionateunarousedunconsciousunemotionalunfeelingunimpassionedunimpressionableunlovingunpassionateunrespondingunresponsiveunsusceptibleunsympatheticuntouchablezonkedzonked out
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16 translations across 13 languages.
Czech
2 entries- katatonický adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
- katatonní adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
Dutch
1 entries- catatonisch adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
Finnish
1 entries- katatoninen adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
French
1 entries- catatonique adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
German
1 entries- katatonisch adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
Hungarian
2 entries- kataton adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
- katatóniás adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
Icelandic
1 entries- stjarfur adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
Italian
1 entries- catatonico adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
Portuguese
2 entries- catatónico adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
- catatônico adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
Russian
1 entries- кататони́ческий adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
Spanish
1 entries- catatónico adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
Swedish
1 entries- katatonisk adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
Turkish
1 entries- kaskatı adj (of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia)
Sample sentences
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However, he was looking a lot more catatonic and depressed before and sometimes we find that on the anti-depressants you remove the depression and uncover the paranoid stuff and we may have to give him larger quantities of tranquilizers just to tone this down.
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It was plausible that Cara became more catatonic in order to avoid a painful and overwhelming confrontation with terrifying but repressed memories of child abuse.
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He made Yossarian think of cripples and of cold and hungry men and women, and of all the dumb, passive, devout mothers with catatonic eyes nursing infants outdoors that same night with chilled animal udders bared insensibly to that same raw rain.
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