Get to know Cathartic better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like purgative or medicament.
Cathartic meaning
- Purgative; inducing mental or physical catharsis.
- That which releases emotional tension, especially after an overwhelming experience.
Synonyms of Cathartic
Using Cathartic
- The main meaning on this page is: Purgative; inducing mental or physical catharsis. | That which releases emotional tension, especially after an overwhelming experience.
- Useful related words include: purgative, medicament, medication, medicine.
- In the example corpus, cathartic often appears in combinations such as: cathartic experience, cathartic and, was cathartic.
Context around Cathartic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 13 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cathartic
- In this selection, "cathartic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, highly, find, stories, experience, exercise and moment stand out and add context to how "cathartic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after the cathartic binge fast and also incredibly cathartic to talk. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cathartic" sits close to words such as abject, accumulations and agnostic, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cathartic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s not a fun process, but it felt very cathartic. (11 words)
It may have been cathartic, but it was time for a melatonin. (12 words)
His death, however, is an important and highly cathartic moment in the film. (13 words)
Fiddlehead’s previous two records have been nothing short of fantastic, and clearly a cathartic exercise for singer (and high school history teacher) Pat Flynn as he discusses themes of parental loss, becoming a father, and falling in love. (39 words)
Between animation that excels in both quality and creativity and a story that comes off as highly cathartic, is already doing a lot to stand out among its competition, and that’s more than worth paying attention to. (38 words)
It has its quiet moments but it grows and grows into a cathartic burst of Williams, York and Farro converging at once to create what is a satisfying close to a masterful evolutionary display of musicianship and teamwork. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Between animation that excels in both quality and creativity and a story that comes off as highly cathartic, is already doing a lot to stand out among its competition, and that’s more than worth paying attention to.
But that cathartic relief and hope at seeking justice was short-lived when a state court threw our her lawsuit.
Cooper started writing “Ain’t No Mo’” in 2016 as a cathartic way to deal with the onslaught of police killings of unarmed Black folks.
Deeply existential and overwhelmingly human, these stories provide the audience with a cathartic experience that comes at the end of a long journey of suffering.
Despite it being deemed rude or offensive in certain contexts, even some of the most civil-tongued among us may find cathartic or defiant pleasure in using profanity every now and then.
Fiddlehead’s previous two records have been nothing short of fantastic, and clearly a cathartic exercise for singer (and high school history teacher) Pat Flynn as he discusses themes of parental loss, becoming a father, and falling in love.
His death, however, is an important and highly cathartic moment in the film.
Instead of simply killing off their gay characters or subjecting them to the horrors of the infected world, gives its queer leads a paradise they can call home, and a cathartic experience for viewers.
It has its quiet moments but it grows and grows into a cathartic burst of Williams, York and Farro converging at once to create what is a satisfying close to a masterful evolutionary display of musicianship and teamwork.
It is these stories’ cathartic nature, their ability to shock and disquiet, that makes the best anime series so overwhelmingly powerful.
It may have been cathartic, but it was time for a melatonin.
It’s not a fun process, but it felt very cathartic.
It was the best—so cathartic and fun and cool that both of those guys danced with everyone, because some of us are real dancers.
Kate says it was a cathartic exercise, which she used to debrief and unpack what had happened.
Meanwhile, the final episode of the spin-off 'Joey' ends with a cathartic snowball fight.
Not long after the cathartic binge, fast food eventually lost its allure for Letourneau because it was no longer taboo.
One particular wellness drug of choice for her was The Class, which describes itself as “a cathartic workout experience that guides you to strengthen the body and notice the mind to restore balance”.
Personally, it was tough to relive that period in our lives but it was also incredibly cathartic to talk through those dark days.
She had come back in December 2019 to give her first testimony in the pre-trial and said that it was “ an extraordinarily cathartic moment for me,” and let her reveal just how heroic her husband was.
So to me, this was a cathartic, new experience and I learned so much and had so many incredible experiences.
Common combinations with cathartic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- cathartic experience 7×
- cathartic and 7×
- was cathartic 7×
- cathartic for 7×
- as cathartic 6×
- is cathartic 6×
- cathartic to 5×
- cathartic release 5×
- been cathartic 4×
- cathartic or 3×