Meanings
- not comparableIn a state partially resembling catatonia.
On the two plane rides home I watch three “Bridget Jones” movies in a semi-catatonic state. I feel numb when we step into our apartment.
2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times1 more example
When these people speak — and they do at length, often in lyrical monologues of unexpected beauty — it is with the semicatatonic air of someone waking from a long sleep, grasping for fragments of vanished dreams.
2009 March 24, Ben Brantley, “Swimming Across the Rough Sea of History”, in The New York Times
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