comatose

Word Origin & History

1755, from Latinized form of Greek komat-, comb. form of koma (genitive komatos; see coma) + -ose (1). Perhaps immediately from French comateux. Transferred sense of "lethargic" is from 1828.

Example Sentences forcomatose

The survivors were in two sorts of panic—the comatose, and the madly violent.

In a comatose state; but is roused to attention by calling him.

Then he cleared them all out, and when they came back Hall was comatose.

I must have fainted away and the doctor told you I was in a comatose state, eh?

He was very delirious for some days, restless, sleepless, then comatose.

For hours he was speechless, and to every appearance in a comatose condition.

Under the crushing blow he sank, a comatose heap, on the floor.

I fought them with insect powder, and found them comatose in the morning.

At 10 A.M. on Sunday he was comatose, but not profoundly; he could be aroused.

As a rule, these patients are comatose because of the presence of kidney disease.

comatose

sluggish

slumberous

somnifacient

somniferous

somnific

stuporous

torpid

unconscious

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