Asthmatic
adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person who suffers from asthma.
- 2 a person suffering from asthma wordnet
- 1 Having the characteristics of asthma, as in an "asthmatic cough".
"The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them."
- 1 relating to breathing with a whistling sound wordnet
Example
More examples"A toad looked out of every fold in her dress, croaking like an asthmatic pug dog."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin asthmaticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσθματικός (asthmatikós, “afflicted with shortness of breath”), from ἆσθμα (âsthma, “short-drawn breath, panting”) (compare asthma). By surface analysis, asthma + -ic.
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