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cataleptic

cataleptic adjective: pertaining to, or affected by, catalepsy.

Adjective

cataleptic (comparative more cataleptic, superlative most cataleptic)

  1. Pertaining to, or affected by, catalepsy.
    • Methought I was immersed in a cataleptic trance of more than usual duration and profundity.1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
    • She keeps still, feigning cataleptic exhaustion.2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 771

Noun

cataleptic (plural cataleptics)

  1. A person experiencing catalepsy.

cataleptic meaning in Tamil

cataleptic in Tamil

மூடுசன்னி நோயாளி, மூடுசன்னிக்குரிய, மூடுசன்னி கண்ட, சா விறைப்புச் சார்ந்த

Forms of cataleptic

Adjective
comparativemore cataleptic
superlativemost cataleptic
Noun
pluralcataleptics

Words formed from cataleptic

Questions about cataleptic

What does cataleptic mean?
Cataleptic means pertaining to, or affected by, catalepsy.
What is cataleptic in Tamil?
Cataleptic in Tamil is மூடுசன்னி நோயாளி, மூடுசன்னிக்குரிய, மூடுசன்னி கண்ட. See Cataleptic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cataleptic?
Cataleptic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near cataleptic in the dictionary

  1. catalectics
  2. catalepses
  3. catalepsies
  4. catalepsis
  5. catalepsy
  6. cataleptic
  7. cataleptical
  8. cataleptically
  9. cataleptics
  10. cataleptiform
  11. cataleptize

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