lymphatical
lymphatical is the alternative form of lymphatic.
Meaning of lymphatic
Adjective
lymphatic (comparative more lymphatic, superlative most lymphatic)
- Pertaining to lymph or the lymphatic system.
- Lacking energy or enthusiasm; having characteristics once associated with an excess of lymph: lack of muscle tone, paleness, sluggishness, etc.
- Eleonore Lemindre, aged 34, tailoress, of a sanguine lymphatic temperament, having suffered great depression of spirits, experienced, in the course of 1820, symptoms of what is called disease of the heart.1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 188
- Madly enthusiastic; frantic.
- A Negro stood by all the while trembling, now and then lifting up his hands and eyes, muttering his black Art to some hobgoblin, and (when we least suspected it) skips out, and in a limphatic rapture drew a long knife which he brandisht about his head 7 or 8 times, and after so many spells put it...1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great, Book I, p. 28
Forms of lymphatical
| comparative | more lymphatical |
|---|---|
| superlative | most lymphatical |
Questions about lymphatical
- What is lymphatical the alternative form of?
- Lymphatical is the alternative form of lymphatic.
Words near lymphatical in the dictionary
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