COMA Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

coma

noun

Definition of coma

as in slumber

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Recent Examples of coma As the disease progresses, people can develop a stiff neck, seizures and coma. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 The girl was in a coma for three months following the accident and is still recovering. — Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2026 The fatality rate for people who go into a myxedema coma is between 25% and 60%, according to the American Thyroid Association. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026 The first symptoms can be severe headache, nausea, vomiting and fever, and later symptoms include stiff neck, seizures and coma, NCDHHS said. — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for coma

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Noun

Here’s what’s at play — and what guests can do to protect their slumber.

— Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
Last year, the International Menopause Society published a white paper about how healthy lifestyle changes including improving slumber can do wonders for your perimenopause symptoms.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of slumber

Noun

Losing to the Clippers was the precursor to the Jazz blowing up their team a year later; Utah only came out of hibernation this past summer.

— John Hollinger, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Manage Stress Stress does a number on your nightly hibernation, so try your best to keep it in check.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of hibernation

Noun

Much of the league’s hopes for the future rest on the development of young talents like McKibbin, Josele Ballester, Caleb Surratt and Michael La Sasso, but who knows if those players want to commit to an unstable path.

— Brody Miller, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Kramatorsk has long served as a strategic rear point for the Ukrainian units serving along the eastern front lines – and as a place to which exhausted troops can retreat for a few days of rest before their next mission.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of rest

Noun

But what if the longer wavelengths of the embers could both extend the hours of socializing without heavily impeding our sleep cycle?

— Mike McRae September 02, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026
The value of eight hours of sound sleep has become more apparent to guests in an era of meditation apps and wearable fitness trackers that monitor sleep.

— Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of sleep

Noun

Emmy Brunner’s residential retreats combine hypnosis and somatic practice.

— Anita Bhagwandas, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2026
Over the following five weeks, four more episodes follow him through regression hypnosis, a naked woodland cult and a flotation tank, trailed by a life coach played by comedian Will Hislop, whose credentials came from Instagram.

— Maureen Kerr, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of hypnosis

Noun

For all its characteristic restraint and formal diligence, Killing Spree is a book that wants to make noise, to cut through the dead air with cries of grief and rage, undoing our own savage torpor.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
With movie audiences drifting off to TV, studio release schedules featured torpor-inducing fare like A Man For All Seasons or The Alamo.

— Peter Bart, Deadline, 25 June 2026

Definition of torpor

Noun

Christian Gonzalez and the New England Patriots have finally agreed to a massive contract extension after an offseason standstill.

— Matt Schooley, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
Strict regulations, punishing conditions This summer, more than three-quarters of France’s 80 producers of Salers cheese – a semi-hard, raw cow’s milk cheese – were brought to a standstill following a series of heat waves and accompanying drought.

— Vivian Song, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of standstill

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