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asthmatic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun asthmatic has 1 sense
- asthmatic(n = noun.person) Array - a person suffering from asthma; "she is a chronic asthmatic"; "the painful gasps of a dying asthmatic" is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
Adjective asthmatic has 1 sense
- asthmatic(s = adj.all) wheezing, wheezy - relating to breathing with a whistling sound; Array Derived form noun asthma1
CIDE DICTIONARY
asthmatic, a. [L. asthmaticus, Gr. .].
Of or pertaining to asthma; as, an asthmatic cough; liable to, or suffering from, asthma; as, an asthmatic patient. [1913 Webster]
asthmatic, n.
A person affected with asthma. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
asthmatic, adj. & n.
--adj. relating to or suffering from asthma.
--n. a person suffering from asthma.
--adj. relating to or suffering from asthma.
--n. a person suffering from asthma.
Derivative
asthmatically adv.
Etymology
L asthmaticus f. Gk asthmatikos (as ASTHMA, -IC)
THESAURUS
asthmatic
breathing, errhine, expiratory, heaving, huffing, inspiratory, nasal, panting, pneumonic, puffing, pulmonary, pulmonic, respiratory, rhinal, sneezy, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy, snoring, snorting, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, sternutatory, stertorous, wheezing, wheezy
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