Word Study
catatonic
CIDE DICTIONARY
catatonic, adj.
- of or pertaining to catatonia; suffering from catatonia. [WordNet 1.5]
- appearing mentally stupefied, unresponsive, and motionless, or almost so; seemingly unaware of one's environment. [PJC]
catatonic, n.
a person suffering from catatonia. [PJC]
THESAURUS
catatonic
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 outFor further exploring for "catatonic" in Webster Dictionary Online