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[syn: arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Arthritic \Ar*thrit"ic\, Arthritical \Ar*thrit"ic*al\, a. [L.
arthriticus, Gr. 'arqritiko`s. See Arthritis.]
1. Pertaining to the joints. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
[1913 Webster]
2. Of or pertaining to arthritis; gouty. --Cowper.
[1913 Webster]
3. afflicted with arthritis.
Syn: creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
arthritic
adj 1: of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints";
"rheumy with age and grief" [syn: arthritic, creaky,
rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy]
n 1: a person afflicted with arthritis; "the hands of an elderly
arthritic"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "arthritic":
allergic, anemic, apoplectic, bilious, cancerous, case, chlorotic,
colicky, consumptive, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous,
encephalitic, epileptic, incurable, inpatient, invalid, laryngitic,
leprous, luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic,
neuritic, outpatient, palsied, paralytic, patient, phthisic,
pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, rachitic, rheumatic,
rickety, scorbutic, scrofulous, shut-in, sick person, spastic,
sufferer, tabetic, tabid, terminal case, the sick, tubercular,
tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, valetudinarian