Comatose

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Comatose \Co"ma*tose`\ (? or ?; 277), a. [From {Coma} lethargy.]
     Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as,
     comatose sleep; comatose fever.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  comatose
       adj 1: relating to or associated with a coma; "comatose breathing";
              "comatose state"
       2: in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness;
          unable to respond to external stimuli; "a comatose
          patient"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "comatose":
     Laodicean, Olympian, aloof, anesthetic, anesthetized, apathetic,
     asleep, benumbed, blah, blase, cataleptic, catatonic, cold, dead,
     dead asleep, deep asleep, desensitized, detached, disinterested,
     doped, dopey, dormant, dozy, dreamy, drowsy, drugged,
     drugged with sleep, dull, fast asleep, flaked-out, half asleep,
     half-conscious, heartless, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed,
     hebetudinous, hopeless, impassible, in a stupor, indifferent,
     insensitive, insouciant, languid, lethargic, listless, napping,
     narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, nirvanic, nodding,
     nonchalant, numb, numbed, oblivious, oscitant, out, out cold,
     out of it, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, resigned, sedated,
     semiconscious, senseless, slack, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk,
     sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleeping, sleepy, sluggish,
     slumbering, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnolent, soporific,
     sound asleep, spaced out, spiritless, spunkless, stoic, stoned,
     stretchy, strung out, stupefied, stupid, stuporose, stuporous,
     supine, torpid, uncaring, unconcerned, unconscious, uninterested,
     withdrawn, yawning, yawny, zonked, zonked out