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cataleptical

cataleptical adjective: cataleptic.

Adjective

cataleptical (comparative more cataleptical, superlative most cataleptical)

  1. (rare) Cataleptic.
    • A settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of a partially cataleptical character, were the unusual diagnosis.1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

Forms of cataleptical

comparativemore cataleptical
superlativemost cataleptical

Origin of cataleptical

From cataleptic + -al.

Questions about cataleptical

What does cataleptical mean?
Cataleptical means cataleptic.
What part of speech is cataleptical?
Cataleptical is an adjective.

Words near cataleptical in the dictionary

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

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