Usually means: Immobility or stupor from mental illness.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. catatonic: Merriam-Webster
  2. catatonic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catatonic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. catatonic: Vocabulary.com
  5. Catatonic, catatonic: Wordnik
  6. catatonic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. catatonic: Wiktionary
  8. catatonic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. catatonic: Dictionary.com
  10. catatonic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Catatonic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. catatonic: Rhymezone
  13. catatonic: FreeDictionary.org
  14. catatonic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. catatonic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. catatonic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. catatonic: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. catatonic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. catatonic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Catatonic: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. Base Autisme (No longer online)
  5. catatonic: Medical dictionary
  6. Catatonic: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catatonic: Cats

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catatonic: Urban Dictionary

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▸ 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.
▸ adjective:  (figuratively) Motionless and unresponsive, as from shock; withdrawn.
▸ noun:  (medicine) A patient in a state of catatonia.

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katatonic, cataleptic, cataplectic, catapletic, atactic, catagmatic, entastic, kataplectic, catelectrotonic, catagenic, more...

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stupor, coma, vegetative state, more...

Phrases:
catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic state, catatonic stupor, catatonic excitement, catatonic behavior, more...

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excited, stuporous, acute, mute, negativistic, typical, little, near, certain, chronic, male

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Similar:
katatonic, cataleptic, cataplectic, catapletic, atactic, catagmatic, entastic, kataplectic, catelectrotonic, catagenic, more...

Types:
stupor, coma, vegetative state, more...

Phrases:
catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic state, catatonic stupor, catatonic excitement, catatonic behavior, catatonic disorder, catatonic rigidity, catatonic type schizophrenia, more...

Adjectives:
excited, stuporous, acute, mute, negativistic, typical, little, near, certain, chronic, male

Colors:
    gray,     pale blue,     muted lavender,     dull green,     washed-out yellow, more...



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