Word.ws English Dictionary

tabid

/ˈtæbid/

tabid adjective: pertaining to tabes.

Adjective

tabid (comparative more tabid, superlative most tabid)

  1. Pertaining to tabes.
    • The term "laryngeal crisis" has been applied to those sudden attacks of dispnœa in tabid patients,[…]1897, F[rancis] de Havilland Hall, “Lettsomian Lectures: Diseases of the Nose and Throat in Relation to General Medicine”, in Transactions of the Medical Society of London, page 198
  2. Wasting away, declining.
    • he certainly muſt have gone upon ſome of the old Roman ſouls, of which he had read, without reflecting how much, by a gradual and moſt tabid decline, in a courſe of eighteen hundred years, they muſt unavoidably have ſhrunk, ſo as to have come, when he wrote, almoſt to nothing.1765, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIV, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VII, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 44

Proper noun capitalized: Tabid

Tabid

  1. A barangay of Ozamiz, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.

tabid meaning in Tamil

tabid in Tamil

அழியும், அழிவுறும்

Forms of tabid

comparativemore tabid
superlativemost tabid

Origin of tabid

From tabes + -id, from Latin tābidus (“melting or wasting away, dissolving, decaying, rotting”), from tābeō + -idus.

Words formed from tabid

Questions about tabid

What does tabid mean?
Tabid means pertaining to tabes.
What is tabid in Tamil?
Tabid in Tamil is அழியும், அழிவுறும். See Tabid meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tabid?
Tabid can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tabid?
Tabid is pronounced /ˈtæbid/.

Words near tabid in the dictionary

  1. tabia
  2. tabias
  3. Tabiawan
  4. Tabibi
  5. tabic
  6. tabid
  7. tabidly
  8. tabidness
  9. tabific
  10. tabification
  11. tabified

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tabid (page history and authors); Tabid (page history and authors); tabid (Tamil 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tabid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tabid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.