She lay in a comatose state. the city's downtown has been comatose for years
Recent Examples on the WebAn elite runner is used to handling pain, and being semi-comatose all day seemed much worse. Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 29 May 2020 The upshot was supposed to be thousands of mini-stimuli injected into a near-comatose consumer economy, raising prices and encouraging businesses to reopen. James C. Cobb, Time, 27 Apr. 2020 The proximate cause of these firms’ miseries is familiar to anyone who’s not been comatose for the past two months: the coronavirus pandemic and its concomitant impact on the economy. Robin Kaiser-schatzlein, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2020 One day—hopefully soon—the city that never sleeps will turn to the task of waking up its comatose economy. Kate King, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2020 In the second season, Bonnie got a real story line — which required her to sit by her comatose mother in a hospital room few of the other characters ever visited. Alex Pappademas, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020 When Burna Boy arrives three hours late to an east London studio on a balmy July evening, he is laid-back to the point of comatose -- and monosyllabic. Nick Duerden, Billboard, 19 July 2019 Traveling through the door takes you inside the mind of the person, while their semi-comatose body remains behind. Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 7 Feb. 2020 Any Republican senator that hasn't been conflicted over this presidency is either comatose or is pretty useless.Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018 See More
Word History
Etymology
French comateux, from Greek kōmat-, kōma — see comaentry 1