paralytic
/ˌpæɹəˈlɪtɪk/
paralytic noun: someone suffering from paralysis.
Noun
paralytic (plural paralytics)
- Someone suffering from paralysis.
- Quoth I to myself, "Haply this Shaykh is of those who were wrecked in the ship and hath made his way to this island." So I drew near to him and saluted him, and he returned my salam by signs, but spoke not; and I said to him, "O nuncle mine, what causeth thee to sit here?" He shook his head and...1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
- A drug that produces paralysis.
- For example, use of paralytics in morbidly obese patients or those with spinal instability can precipitate complete upper airway obstruction.2010, John J. Marini, Critical Care Medicine: The Essentials, page 312
Adjective
paralytic (comparative more paralytic, superlative most paralytic)
- Affected by paralysis; paralysed.
- the cold, shaking, paralytic hand1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)
- Synonyms:
- frozen, immobilized
- Pertaining to paralysis.
- Very drunk.
- Are the para-olympics the events in which the olympians, having finished their events in the normal olympics, go out and get pissed and then compete again?
ie: the para-olympics become the paralytic olympics.1996 August 18, Ben McCulloch, “Para-olympics”, in aus.jokes (Usenet) - I'm amazed I survived so much drunken driving. Once he was so paralytic he even made me drive, and I was about 14 and barely able to see above the steering wheel. At least it was an automatic.1999 January 3, David McLoughlin, “Gundagai - Last Use Of Line?”, in aus.rail (Usenet)
- Synonyms:
- drunk
- Are the para-olympics the events in which the olympians, having finished their events in the normal olympics, go out and get pissed and then compete again?
paralytic meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam and Kannada
paralytic in Tamil
- இயக்க ஆற்றலிழந்த, முடக்கு நோயர், வாத, வாதநோயர்
paralytic in Marathi
- paralytic or cramped state
- खोडा khoḍā
paralytic in Malayalam
- disabled, paralysed, crippled
- വാതരോഗമുള്ള, ക്ഷിപ്ത, മരവിച്ച, തളർന്ന, ശരീരം തളർന്ന, അശക്തമാക്കപ്പെട്ട
- drunk, drunken, intoxicated
- മദ്യലഹരിയിലായ, മദ്യപിച്ച, കള്ളുകുടിച്ച, കുടിച്ചു ലഹരിപിടിച്ച, മദ്യപിച്ചു മത്തനായ, വിമത്ത
paralytic in Kannada
- ಲಕ್ವ ಹೊಡೆದಿರುವ, ಪಾರ್ಶ್ವವಾಯು ಪೀಡಿತ
Examples of paralytic in a sentence
- He hasn't even been openly accused of anything bar drinking himself paralytic at a time that, in hindsight, was inconvenient.2001 May 24, Peter Ryan, “ablett no from hall of fame”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules (Usenet):
- On returning to his friends at the bar he remarked " there's a fellow in the jaxx and he's just paralytic.2002 April 16, C e r b e r u s - T h e D o g O f H e l l, “On the Isle of Man.”, in free.jokes (Usenet):
Synonyms of paralytic
Forms of paralytic
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | paralytics |
| alternative Ireland | parlatic |
| alternative Geordie | palatic |
| alternative Geordie | pallatic |
| alternative form (obsolete) | paralytick |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more paralytic |
| superlative | most paralytic |
Origin of paralytic
Borrowed from French paralytique, from Latin paralyticus, from Ancient Greek παραλυτικός (paralutikós, “paralyzed”).
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Questions about paralytic
- What does paralytic mean?
- Paralytic means someone suffering from paralysis.
- What is paralytic in Tamil?
- Paralytic in Tamil is இயக்க ஆற்றலிழந்த, முடக்கு நோயர், வாத. See Paralytic meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use paralytic in a sentence?
- He hasn't even been openly accused of anything bar drinking himself paralytic at a time that, in hindsight, was inconvenient.
- What part of speech is paralytic?
- Paralytic can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce paralytic?
- Paralytic is pronounced /ˌpæɹəˈlɪtɪk/.
- What is the plural of paralytic?
- The plural of paralytic is paralytics.
Words near paralytic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: paralytic (page history and authors); paralytic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); खोडा (Marathi) (page history and authors); paralytic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); paralytic (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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