semicatatonic

English

Etymology

semi- +‎ catatonic

Adjective

semicatatonic (not comparable)

1. In a state partially resembling catatonia.
   • 2009 March 24, Ben Brantley, “Swimming Across the Rough Sea of History”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     When these people speak — and they do at length, often in lyrical monologues of unexpected beauty — it is with the semicatatonic air of someone waking from a long sleep, grasping for fragments of vanished dreams.

   • 2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     On the two plane rides home I watch three “Bridget Jones” movies in a semi-catatonic state. I feel numb when we step into our apartment.