Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or affected with katatonia; profoundly melancholic.
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Examples
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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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