cataleptic
Americanadjective
noun
-
cataleptics
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
They didn’t have official Black Friday sales during the cataleptic 1970s, because the economy was in woeful shape and the public had basically given up on the idea of bargains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Throwing off the cataleptic spell of the cinema, she no longer seems to be waiting for a closeup.
From Time Magazine Archive
Best shot: Kiki going into a cataleptic trance to keep the manager from throwing her out of his apartment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its occupant has died before your eyes, but you can't be too sure, for she was subject to cataleptic trances.
From Time Magazine Archive
He stood stock still in rigid, cataleptic astonishment while the girls ambled in and made themselves comfortable.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
These things are not miraculous, being duplicated in experiments on involuntary cataleptics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suppose they were in the condition of cataleptics, sensible of what passed around them, but paralyzed to the motionlessness and seeming insensibility of death?
From The Frozen Pirate by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
Can you wonder that the country is being hypnotized by the sight of so many cantankerous cataleptics?
From Psycho-Phone Messages by Francis Grierson
Gradually life wrestled again out of winter, and the Knight, as cataleptics must, finished the address which he had begun with the word "Unlucky--" "woman, of whom art thou mother?"
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
He then gives excellent descriptions of three types: the deep stupor with paralysis of the faculties, the cases that are absorbed in false ideas, and ecstatic cataleptics.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
