etherized
Made unconscious medically
Etherized means anesthetized with ether, the volatile liquid once used to render patients unconscious for surgery.
The word appears most famously in T.S.
Eliot's "Prufrock": the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table.
Figuratively, etherized suggests numbness, stupor, or dreamlike passivity.
Hazy and fantastical
- phantasmagoricBizarrely dreamlike and shifting
- hallucinatorySeeming falsely perceived
- oneiricRelating to dreams
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
otherworldly · disembodied · twilight · liminal · dissociated · floating · detached · hazy
Sedating volatile organic compound
- sedationDrug-induced calm state
- nitrousRelating to certain nitrogen compounds
- halothaneInhaled surgical anesthetic
- propofolIntravenous anesthetic for sedation
anesthesia · intubation · analgesia · anesthetist · anesthesiologist · inhalational · intravenous · numbing
Unable to move voluntarily
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- stiffNot easily bent
- rootedFirmly established in place
- staticWithout motion or change
stationary · immovable · inert · trapped · pinned · bound · helpless · powerless
Lacking energy or alertness
- dormantInactive but capable
- quiescentInactive but capable
- placidCalm, undisturbed
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
listless · torpid · languid · complacent · docile · submissive · yielding · acquiescent
dreamlike
Hazy and fantastical
- phantasmagoricBizarrely dreamlike and shifting
- hallucinatorySeeming falsely perceived
- oneiricRelating to dreams
uncanny · otherworldly · disembodied · twilight · liminal · dissociated · floating · detached · hazy · spectral
chloroform
Sedating volatile organic compound
- sedationDrug-induced calm state
- nitrousRelating to certain nitrogen compounds
- halothaneInhaled surgical anesthetic
propofol · anesthesia · intubation · analgesia · anesthetist · anesthesiologist · inhalational · intravenous · numbing · spinal
paralyzed
Unable to move voluntarily
static · stationary · immovable · inert · trapped · pinned · bound · helpless · powerless · suspended
lethargic
Lacking energy or alertness
apathetic · listless · torpid · languid · complacent · docile · submissive · yielding · acquiescent · unresisting
etherizedsensitive
Easily affected emotionally
sensate · unanesthetized · feeling · responsive · perceptive