COMATOSE Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

comatose

adjective

ˈkō-mə-ˌtōs

Definition of comatose

as in slow

lacking in gaiety, movement, or animation the city's downtown has been comatose for years

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Recent Examples of comatose Within a matter of minutes, Hicks, Hudson, Vasquez, and Gorman are the only Marines left standing — and Gorman's technically comatose. — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2026 Polaski, a freshman at the University of Alabama, was found comatose on the concrete by resort staff and immediately rushed to a local hospital. — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026 One of the most intense sequences finds Lucas protecting a still-comatose Max while a horde of demodogs chases him through a hospital. — Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026 Goldstein was comatose and had been placed on a ventilator after pneumonia overwhelmed her lungs. — John Blake, CNN Money, 5 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for comatose

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Adjective

Reseeding helps block weed growth, repel lawn diseases, slow soil erosion, and strengthen growth in bare patches.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 29 Aug. 2026
Critical thinking is based on the need for a deliberate, slow, self-regulatory pause.

— Ted Ladd, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of slow

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No one predicted the sleepy backwater of Sassnitz would be rebranded ‘Crashnitz’ or ‘Smashnitz’ by the end of the first edition of the German Sail Grand Prix last year.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
During an allegedly sleepy period on the NBA schedule, the Lakers shook everyone awake with a blaring alarm.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026

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Current policy allows airport facilities to be named only for people who have been dead at least two years and who made significant contributions to the airport authority or aviation in Middle Tennessee.

— Hadley Hitson, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
To that end, Chris Diamantopoulos looks like an inspired bit of casting as Mitch McNamara, a government agent who swoops in to examine eight dead Jasons and a ninth the police are holding in an interrogation room.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026

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