Definition of "comatose" [co•ma•tose]

• Of, relating to, or affected with coma; unconscious. (adjective)
• Marked by lethargy; torpid. (adjective)

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• "I know what _comatose_ means, and I thought that comatose was a good way to stay until I figured out what was going on."
• "A group, National Prayer Movement, has decried what it described as the comatose state of the nation owing to the sickness of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, saying the situation is most unfortunate."
• "He was comatose from the raging infection in his left hand and could not tell the compassionate, but practical, pilot who he was or where to take him so they left him at the spring of Asclepios."