asthmatic
/æsˈθmætɪk/US/æzˈmætɪk/
asthmatic adjective: having the characteristics of asthma.
Adjective
asthmatic (comparative more asthmatic, superlative most asthmatic)
- Having the characteristics of asthma.
- 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...1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71
Noun
asthmatic (plural asthmatics)
asthmatic meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Arabic
asthmatic in Tamil
- காசம் சார்ந்த ஈளையால் பீடிக்கப்பட்ட
asthmatic in Tagalog
- having the characteristics of asthma
- hikain
- one who suffers from asthma
- hikain
asthmatic in Arabic
- having the characteristics of asthma
- مُتَعَلِق بِدَاء اَلرَّبْو mutaʕaliq bidāʔ ar-rabw
- one who suffers from asthma
- مُصَاب بِدَاء اَلرَّبُو muṣāb bidāʔ ar-rabū
Forms of asthmatic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more asthmatic |
| superlative | most asthmatic |
| alternative form (dated) | asthmatical |
| alternative form (obsolete) | asthmatick |
| Noun | |
| plural | asthmatics |
Origin of asthmatic
Learned borrowing from Latin āsthmaticus. By surface analysis, asthma + -ic.
Words formed from asthmatic
Phrases with asthmatic
Words that rhyme with asthmatic
- automatic
- chromatic
- emphatic
- static
- systematic
- idiomatic
- attic
- hexachromatic
- thematic
- aromatic
- democratic
- hepatic
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- lymphatic
- schematic
- adiabatic
- aristocratic
- asymptomatic
- athematic
- autocratic
- axiomatic
- chiasmatic
- erratic
- fanatic
- fluorochromatic
- interchromatic
- phlegmatic
- prismatic
- psychosomatic
- quadchromatic
- rheumatic
- sciatic
- stromatic
- aerobatic
- altermatic
- aposematic
- bathochromatic
- bizygomatic
- bureaucratic
- chorochromatic
- chromocratic
- circumzygomatic
- coccochromatic
- curatic
- diabatic
- dyschromatic
- endolymphatic
- episematic
- epistatic
- frontozygomatic
- glymphatic
- goniochromatic
- graphematic
- herostratic
- hydroinformatic
- idiosyncratic
- immunochromatic
- infrazygomatic
- interzygomatic
- katabatic
- kinechromatic
Questions about asthmatic
- What does asthmatic mean?
- Asthmatic means having the characteristics of asthma.
- What is asthmatic in Tamil?
- Asthmatic in Tamil is காசம் சார்ந்த ஈளையால் பீடிக்கப்பட்ட. See Asthmatic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is asthmatic?
- Asthmatic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce asthmatic?
- Asthmatic is pronounced /æsˈθmætɪk/ (UK).
Words near asthmatic in the dictionary
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