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PHTHISICAL

Definition: PHTHISICAL

PHTHISICAL

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PHTHISICAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

Etymology: Phthisical \Phthis"ic*al\, adjective. [Latin expression phthisicus: compare to the French expression phthisique. See Phthisis.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: PHTHISICAL

English words defined with "PHTHISICAL": Tisical, Tisicky. (references)

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Modern Translations: PHTHISICAL

Language Translations for "PHTHISICAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

souchotinářský (consumptive). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φθισικόσ (consumptive, hectic, phthisic). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isicalphthay

   

Turkish

  

veremli (consumptive, phthisic, tuberculous), verem (consumption, phthisic, phthisis, tubercular, tuberculosis, tuberculous). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PHTHISICAL"

Words rhyming with "PHTHISICAL" (pronounced 'Phthis"ic*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PHTHISICAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-h-i-i-l-p-s-t"

-2 letters: chiliast, phthalic, phthisic.

-3 letters: aplitic, caliphs, chitals, ischial, italics, litchis, lithias, pachisi, plastic, shilpit, spathic.

-4 letters: caliph, chilis, chital, claspt, haptic, ischia, italic, laichs, lathis, latish, lichis, lichts, litchi, lithia, lithic, palish, pastil, phasic, phatic, phials, pistil, plaits, sialic, silica, slatch, spilth, spital, tahsil, ticals.

-5 letters: aitch, alist, aphis, apish, aspic, caphs, chaps, chapt.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h-h-i-i-l-p-s-t"
 

+5 letters: histopathologic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PHTHISICAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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