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Definition: Catatonic |
CatatonicAdjective1. (medical) characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "catatonic" was first used: 1908. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | 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. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Catatonic |
| English words defined with "catatonic": catatonia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "catatonic": Bumke pupil, Bumke's pupil ♦ Helen Keller mode ♦ infinite loop ♦ off the trolley. (references) |
| "Catatonic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.67% of the time. "Catatonic" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.67% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "catatonic": catatonic schizophrenia ♦ catatonic type schizophrenia. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "catatonic": semi-catatonic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
catatonic | 36 |
catatonic schizophrenia | 35 |
behavior catatonic | 7 |
catatonic state | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "catatonic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 紧 性精神分裂症. (various references) | |
Danish | catatonicus, katatonisk, kataton. (various references) | |
Dutch | katatoon. (various references) | |
Finnish | katatoninen. (various references) | |
French | catatonique. (various references) | |
German | katatonisch. (various references) | |
Greek | κατατονικός. (various references) | |
Italian | catatonico. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atatoniccay.(various references) | |
Russian | недвижимый (bedridden, immobile, immovable), бессознательный (instinctive, unconscious). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | katatoničan. (various references) | |
Spanish | catatónico. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kata-. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "catatonic": catatonically, catatonics. (additional references) | |
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"Catatonic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: camattini, catatronic, catetonic, catotonic, datatronic, Datatronix. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "catatonic" (pronounced ka'tutÄ"nik) |
| 6 | -u t Ä" n i k | diatonic, isotonic, platonic. |
| 5 | -t Ä" n i k | hypertonic, leptonic, planktonic, plutonic, tectonic, tonic. |
| 4 | -Ä" n i k | allophonic, avionic, bubonic, chronic, conic, demonic, electronic, embryonic, ganglionic, gnomonic, harmonic, hedonic, hegemonic, histrionic, hydroponic, hypersonic, ionic, ironic, isoelectronic, laconic, masonic, microelectronic, mnemonic, monophonic, nucleonic, ovonic, pharaonic, philharmonic, phonic, pneumonic, polyphonic, sardonic, sonic, supersonic, symphonic, synchronic, telephonic, ultrasonic. |
| 3 | -n i k | arsenic, beatnik, botanic, calisthenic, carcinogenic, clinic, cynic, Dominick, ethnic, eugenic, galvanic, germanic, hallucinogenic, inorganic, kibbutznik, manic, mechanic, messianic, monoclinic, multiethnic, neotenic, oceanic, organic, orogenic, panic, pathogenic, photogenic, polytechnic, psychogenic, pyrotechnic, refusenik, satanic, scenic, schizophrenic, splenic, Sputnik, technic, telegenic, Titanic, transgenic, transoceanic, tunic, tympanic, volcanic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-n-o-t-t" | |
-2 letters: atactic, contact, taction, toccata. | |
-3 letters: action, anatto, atonic, attain, cantic, cation, cocain, intact, octant, tactic, tictac, tictoc. | |
-4 letters: actin, antic, attic, cacao, cacti, canto, coact, coati, conic, cotan, cotta, octan, ontic, tacit, taint, tanto, tinct, titan, tonic. | |
-5 letters: acta, anoa, anta, anti, caca, cain, cant, ciao, cion, coat, coca, coin, coni, icon, into, iota. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-i-n-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: catatonics. | |
+2 letters: acceptation, antitobacco, coarctation. | |
+3 letters: accentuation, acceptations, capacitation, coarctations. | |
+4 letters: accentuations, accreditation, acculturation, accustomation, acetification, capacitations, catatonically, catechization, cicatrization, concatenating, concatenation, contractional, intrathoracic, pantisocratic, sacrosanctity, transthoracic. | |
+5 letters: accountability, accountantship, accreditations, acculturations, accustomations, acetifications, antidemocratic, catechizations, cicatrizations, concatenations, contractionary, contradictable, contraindicate, incapacitation, sanctification. | |
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