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asthmatic

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
17
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/æsˈθmætɪk/ (UK)
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/æsˈθmætɪk/ (UK) · /æsˈmætɪk/ (UK) · /æzˈmætɪk/ (US)

Definition of asthmatic

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having the characteristics of asthma, as in an "asthmatic cough".
    “The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.”
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adj

  1. Having the characteristics of asthma, as in an "asthmatic cough".
    “The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.”

noun

  1. A person who suffers from asthma.

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin asthmaticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσθματικός (asthmatikós, “afflicted with shortness of breath”), from ἆσθμα (âsthma, “short-drawn breath, panting”) (compare asthma). By surface analysis, asthma + -ic.

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