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arthritically

arthritically adverb: in an arthritic fashion: in a way that is characteristic of a person with arthritis.

Adverb

arthritically (comparative more arthritically, superlative most arthritically)

  1. In an arthritic fashion: in a way that is characteristic of a person with arthritis
    • As Lehman, Breuler is sluggish, coarse, and lumpy, huffing and puffing his way arthritically about the stage like some 1930s crime-movie heavy.1989 October 20, Albert Williams, “The Butter and Egg Man”, in Chicago Reader
    • But as time went by the inert human creature became so wholly opprobrious to the gecko, who valued a good hunt, that at last, as the small ceiling fan continued to turn arthritically, churning an unnoticeable, fetid draft of warm air in the direction of the man and the beast […].2008, Steven Sills, An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

Forms of arthritically

comparativemore arthritically
superlativemost arthritically

Origin of arthritically

From arthritic + -ally.

Questions about arthritically

What does arthritically mean?
Arthritically means in an arthritic fashion: in a way that is characteristic of a person with arthritis.
What part of speech is arthritically?
Arthritically is an adverb.

Words near arthritically in the dictionary

  1. arthrectomies
  2. arthrectomy
  3. arthrialgia
  4. arthritic
  5. arthritical
  6. arthritically
  7. arthriticin
  8. arthriticine
  9. arthriticky
  10. arthritics
  11. arthritides

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