nervous prostration

1. 1.

   an emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work

   Synonymsnervous exhaustion

   Broadernervous breakdown

Questions about nervous prostration

What does nervous prostration mean?

nervous prostration means "an emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work".

What is another word for nervous prostration?

Close synonyms include nervous exhaustion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nervous prostration a common word?

nervous prostration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.