Catatonic

6 definitions found

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

  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]

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

  catatonic \catatonic\ n.
     a person suffering from catatonia.
     [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  catatonic
       adj : characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or
             extreme laxness of limbs

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

  117 Moby Thesaurus words for "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 out
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  catatonic adj. Describes a condition of suspended animation in which
     something is so {wedged} or {hung} that it makes no response. If you are
     typing on a terminal and suddenly the computer doesn't even echo the
     letters back to the screen as you type, let alone do what you're asking
     it to do, then the computer is suffering from catatonia (possibly
     because it has crashed). "There I was in the middle of a winning game of
     {nethack} and it went catatonic on me! Aaargh!" Compare {buzz}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  catatonic
       
          Describes a condition of suspended animation in which
          something is so {wedged} or {hung} that it makes no response.
          If you are typing on a {terminal} and suddenly the computer
          doesn't even echo the letters back to the screen as you type,
          let alone do what you're asking it to do, then the computer is
          suffering from catatonia (possibly because it has crashed).
          Compare {buzz}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]