Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or affected with katatonia; profoundly melancholic.

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Examples

  • The doctor had diagnosed his behaviour at different times as anergic stupor, melancholic stupor, resistive stupor, and katatonic stupor.

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

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