Tubercular

//tjuˈbɜːkjələ(ɹ)//

Synonyms for "tubercular" (73 found)

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Translations

16 translations across 11 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • туберкулозен adj (pertaining to tuberculosis)

Dutch

1 entries
  • tuberculeus adj (pertaining to tuberculosis)

Finnish

2 entries
  • tuberkuloottinen adj (pertaining to tuberculosis)
  • keuhkotautinen noun (person who has tuberculosis)

French

3 entries
  • phtisique noun (person who has tuberculosis)
  • poitrinaire noun (person who has tuberculosis)
  • tuberculeux noun (person who has tuberculosis)

Greek

1 entries
  • φυματικός adj (pertaining to tuberculosis)

Interlingua

1 entries
  • tubercular adj (pertaining to tuberculosis)

Polish

3 entries
  • gruźliczy adj (pertaining to tuberculosis)
  • gruźlik noun (person who has tuberculosis)
  • suchotnik noun (person who has tuberculosis)

Russian

1 entries
  • туберкулёзный adj (pertaining to tuberculosis)

Spanish

1 entries
  • tuberculoso adj (pertaining to tuberculosis)

Swedish

1 entries
  • tuberkulös adj (pertaining to tuberculosis)

Turkish

1 entries
  • veremli adj (pertaining to tuberculosis)

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

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As he grew older, his tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation.

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He set up business in Sydney, the little capital city of one of the middle Southern states, lived soberly and industriously under the attentive eye of a folk still raw with defeat and hostility, and finally, his good name founded and admission won, he married a gaunt tubercular spinstress, ten years his elder, but with a nest egg and an unshakable will to matrimony.

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There had been, too, all the long weeks of Rosie’s tubercular dying to go through.

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2012, Will Self, “Kafka’s Wound, A digital essay” London Review of Books website, The adult Kafka – the Kafka vermiculated by tubercular bacilli after having been played on for decades, as a demonic organist might press fleshy keys and pull bony stops, by his own relentless neurasthenia – reached a mystical appreciation of his youthful velleity, characterising it as a desire both to expertly hammer together a table and at the same time ‘do nothing’.

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