Dropsical

Definition: Dropsical

Dropsical

Adjective

1. Swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid.

Date "dropsical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Dropsical \Drop"si*cal\, adjective. [From Dropsy.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Dropsical

Synonym: edematous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Expansion	Adjective: expanded; Verb: larger; (large; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied; edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous; bulbous; (convex); full blown, full grown, full formed; big; abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying.
Redundancy	Crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing; gorged, ready to burst; dropsical, turgid, plethoric; obese.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dropsical

English words defined with "dropsical": Ascitical ♦ Dropsicalness ♦ Hydropical ♦ Leucophlegmacy, Leucophlegmatic. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The Dropsical Woman. / Godard del. & sc. from a painting by Gerald Dou. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Its large eyes appeared young and unhealthy, almost dropsical.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Dropsical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dropsical" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	2	245,945

Language		Translations for "dropsical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		që vuan nga hidropizia, i ënjtur (swollen, tumid, turgid). (various references)

Arabic		‏إستسقائي. (various references)

Bulgarian		болен от воднянка (hydropic), подпухнал (bloated, puffed up, puffy, sodden, swollen, turgid). (various references)

Chinese		臌 (swollen), 脹 (swollen, to be bloated, to swell). (various references)

Czech		vodnatelný. (various references)

French		hydropique. (various references)

German		wassersüchtig. (various references)

Greek		υδρωπικόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		vízkóros. (various references)

Italian		idropico (hydropic). (various references)

Pig Latin		opsicaldray

Portuguese		hidrópico (hydropic). (various references)

Romanian		umflat (baggy, bloated, blubber, bombastic, bulging, flush, gummy, high-flown, inflated, long, puffy, swollen, tumid, turgid), hidropic. (various references)

Russian		страдающий водянкой, опухший (turgid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		otečen (swollen, tumid), oboleo od vodene bolesti, nadut (arrogant, bloated, flatulent). (various references)

Spanish		hidrópico (hydropic). (various references)

Swedish		vattusiktig. (various references)

Turkish		su toplanması ile ilgili, ödemli. (various references)

Ukrainian		водянковий (hydropic), опухлий (gummy, turgid). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	hydropicus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-l-o-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: cordials, picadors, placoids, sporadic.
	-2 letters: cordial, dipolar, parodic, picador, picaros, placoid, prosaic, sarcoid, sparoid.
	-3 letters: alcids, aroids, cairds, capris, capsid, caroli, carols, claros, copals, copras, corals, darics, dorsal, drails, lairds, liards, lidars, lorica, parols, picaro, placid, plaids, polars, psocid, radios, rapids, sailor, salpid, scoria, social, sparid, spiral, sporal.
	-4 letters: acids, acold, acrid, adios, alcid.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-l-o-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: clipboards, prosodical, sporicidal.
	+2 letters: duplicators, periodicals, rhapsodical.
	+3 letters: dimercaprols, postcardlike, prosodically, sporadically.
	+4 letters: aphrodisiacal, perissodactyl, rhapsodically.
	+5 letters: achondroplasia, cephaloridines, discographical, hydrocephalics, hydrocephalies, particleboards, perissodactyls, polysaccharide, reduplications.
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Dropsical

Definition: Dropsical

Dropsical

Adjective

Synonym: Dropsical

Synonyms within Context: Dropsical

Expansion

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Crosswords: Dropsical

Photo Album: Dropsical

Use in Literature: Dropsical

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Usage Frequency: Dropsical

Modern Translation: Dropsical

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