Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Hairy; tufted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts
  • adjective of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair

Etymologies

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Latin comatus, from comare ("to clothe with hair").

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Examples

  • Je comate mais tiens tout de meme une discussion avec Severine et ma mere. je ne sais plus vraiment sur quoi.

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  • Assis sur le siege passager avant de la voiture de severine je comate la tete appuyé au careau, legerement incliné pour lire les doc 'amassé au forum.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Il est 19h00 je comate ... je suis tellement epuisé que je ne lui repond pas je me rendors ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Je comate sur le canapé toute la matinee, toute la journee alternant des crise de vomissement et de diarrhee aigue.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • A 4h30 quand mes parents partent au travail, je comate jusqu'a ma chambre ou je m'ecroule sur mon lit, j'ai chaud, j'ai soif ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Je me leve (avec du mal) e me prepare 13h30 toctoc ... hop Direction Reims ... 1h00 deroute je comate dans la voiture en essayant de comprendre tous les mots que Severine debite ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • This comate was no less a person than Cimon, the son of the great

    Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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  • Used to describe a comet in the OED citation, "1600 FAIRFAX Tasso XIV. xliv, How comate, crinite, caudate starres are fram'd."

    November 15, 2007

  • longhaired?

    August 29, 2014