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cacogastric

cacogastric adjective: troubled with bad digestion.

Adjective

cacogastric (comparative more cacogastric, superlative most cacogastric)

  1. (archaic, rare) Troubled with bad digestion.
    • Diderot writes to his fair one, that his clothes will hardly button, that he is thus "stuffed," and thus; and so indigestion, succeeds indigestion. Such Narratives fill the heart of sensibility with amazement; nor to the woes that chequer this imperfect, caco-gastric state of existence, is the tear...1833, Thomas Carlyle, “Diderot”, in Foreign Quarterly Review

Forms of cacogastric

comparativemore cacogastric
superlativemost cacogastric

Origin of cacogastric

From caco- + gastric.

Questions about cacogastric

What does cacogastric mean?
Cacogastric means troubled with bad digestion.
What part of speech is cacogastric?
Cacogastric is an adjective.

Words near cacogastric in the dictionary

  1. cacoethic
  2. cacoethical
  3. cacoethically
  4. cacoethics
  5. cacogamy
  6. cacogastric
  7. cacogenesis
  8. cacogenic
  9. cacogenics
  10. cacogeusia
  11. cacographer

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