aphasic

comparative more aphasic · superlative most aphasic

1. medicineAffected by, or pertaining to, aphasia.

   ... groups of dancers were wheeling, plunging, and gesticulating while the ogre, more aphasic than before, mumbled at full strength ...

   1954, Kingsley Amis, chapter 12, in Lucky Jim

plural aphasics

1. medicineOne who is afflicted by symptoms of aphasia.

   Linguists are also responsible for the delay in undertaking a joint inquiry into aphasia. Nothing comparable to the minute linguistic observations of infants of various countries has been performed with respect to aphasics.

   1987 [1956], Roman Jakobson, edited by Krystyna Pomorska Stephen Rudy, Language in Literature, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, →ISBN, page 96