diabetic
/daɪəˈbɛtɪk/US/ˌdaɪəˈbɛtɪk/
diabetic adjective: of or pertaining to diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus.
Adjective
diabetic (comparative more diabetic, superlative most diabetic)
- Of or pertaining to diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus.
- diabetic complications
- the diabetic foot
- Having diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus.
- diabetic patients (patients with diabetes)
- He turned diabetic in his thirties.
- Suitable for one having diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus.
- diabetic socks
- I also have learned to slip a couple of my diabetic cookies in my purse […] and take them along with me when we are invited out for afternoon coffee.2002, Mabel Cavaiani, The New Diabetic Cookbook, Fifth Edition, page 347
Noun
diabetic (plural diabetics)
- A person with diabetes, usually diabetes mellitus.
diabetic meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Tagalog
diabetic in Tamil
- மதுமேக, மதுமேகி
diabetic in Telugu
- డయాబెటిక్
diabetic in Kannada
- ಮಧುಮೇಹಿ
diabetic in Tagalog
- having diabetes
- diyabetiko
Examples of diabetic in a sentence
- Her diagnoses include type 2 diabetes mellitus, primary hypertension, diabetic retinopathy, and generalized anxiety disorder.
- He has a few blind spots in his eyesight because of his diabetic retinopathy.
- Many diabetics have been dying, especially during COVID-19.
Forms of diabetic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more diabetic |
| superlative | most diabetic |
| Noun | |
| plural | diabetics |
Origin of diabetic
From diabetes + -ic. Doublet of diabatic.
Words formed from diabetic
Phrases with diabetic
Words that rhyme with diabetic
- sympathetic
- hermetic
- kinetic
- athletic
- genetic
- magnetic
- energetic
- pathetic
- syndetic
- aesthetic
- diaeretic
- frenetic
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- mimetic
- peripatetic
- planetic
- poetic
- tonetic
- abietic
- anesthetic
- anoetic
- anuretic
- apathetic
- ascetic
- auxetic
- cybernetic
- dietetic
- epithetic
- Helvetic
- parasympathetic
- parenthetic
- phyletic
- Sidetic
- splenetic
- synaeretic
- synizetic
- tabetic
- threnetic
- alexipyretic
- algetic
- alphabetic
- alphametic
- amuletic
- analgetic
- anchoretic
- anoretic
- aphetic
- aporetic
- archegetic
- asyndetic
- auletic
- autonoetic
- balletic
- Baphometic
- cardioparasympathetic
- cardiosympathetic
- cometic
- conspiracy-theoretic
- cynegetic
- diagenetic
- diakinetic
Questions about diabetic
- What does diabetic mean?
- Diabetic means of or pertaining to diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus.
- What is diabetic in Tamil?
- Diabetic in Tamil is மதுமேக, மதுமேகி. See Diabetic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is diabetic?
- Diabetic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce diabetic?
- Diabetic is pronounced /daɪəˈbɛtɪk/ (UK).
Words near diabetic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: diabetic (page history and authors); diabetic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); diabetic (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); diabetic (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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