"Educational autism" in the California school system apparently has looser criteria than the DSM-IV's series of autistic disorders.
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Autistic
//ɔːˈtɪs.tɪk//
Synonyms for "autistic" (167 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
55 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَوَحُّدِي adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Catalan
3 entries- autista adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- autístic adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- autista noun (person who has autism)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 自閉 /自闭 adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Czech
2 entries- autistický adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- autista noun (person who has autism)
Danish
2 entries- autistisk adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- autist noun (person who has autism)
Dutch
1 entries- autistisch adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Esperanto
2 entries- aŭtisma adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- aŭtismulo noun (person who has autism)
Finnish
2 entries- autistinen adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- autisti noun (person who has autism)
French
2 entries- autiste adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- autiste noun (person who has autism)
Galician
2 entries- autista adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- autista noun (person who has autism)
German
2 entries- autistisch adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- Autist noun (person who has autism)
Greek
2 entries- αυτιστικός adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- αυτιστικό noun (person who has autism)
Hebrew
2 entries- אוֹטִיסְטִי adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- אוטיסט noun (person who has autism)
Hungarian
3 entries- autista adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- autisztikus adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- autista noun (person who has autism)
Icelandic
1 entries- sjálfhverfur adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Interlingua
1 entries- autistic adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Irish
1 entries- uathach adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Italian
1 entries- autistico adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Korean
1 entries- 자폐증적 adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Latin
3 entries- autisticus adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- autistica noun (person who has autism)
- autisticus noun (person who has autism)
Malay
1 entries- autistik adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- autistisk adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- autistisk adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Occitan
1 entries- autista noun (person who has autism)
Polish
2 entries- autyczny adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- autystyczny adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Portuguese
2 entries- autista adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- autista noun (person who has autism)
Russian
3 entries- аутисти́ческий adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- аутисти́чный adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- аути́ст noun (person who has autism)
Slovak
1 entries- autistický adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Spanish
3 entries- autista adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- autístico adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- autista noun (person who has autism)
Swedish
1 entries- autistisk adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Welsh
1 entries- awtistig adj (having or pertaining to autism)
Yiddish
3 entries- אויטיסטיש adj (having or pertaining to autism)
- אויטיסטישע noun (person who has autism)
- אויטיסטישער noun (person who has autism)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
It is gross to kick autistic children.
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Is this kid autistic or does he have ADHD? His behavior is hard to characterize either way.
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The upcoming fifth edition of the DSM proposes a new spectrum-based classification of autistic disorders.
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