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cachectical

cachectical is the alternative form of cachectic.

Meaning of cachectic

Adjective

cachectic (comparative more cachectic, superlative most cachectic)

  1. Having cachexia; wasting away from a disease or chronic illness.
    • His horse has been restored to him (cachectic as ever, looking like one of the gutted nags the Druids used to impale for decoration) […]1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 44

Forms of cachectical

comparativemore cachectical
superlativemost cachectical

Questions about cachectical

What is cachectical the alternative form of?
Cachectical is the alternative form of cachectic.

Words near cachectical in the dictionary

  1. cache-sexe
  2. cache-sexes
  3. cacheability
  4. cacheable
  5. cachectic
  6. cachectical
  7. cachectin
  8. cached
  9. cacheing
  10. Cachel
  11. cacheless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cachectical (page history and authors); cachectic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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