asthmatic

comparative more asthmatic · superlative most asthmatic · alternative dated asthmatical · alternative obsolete asthmatick

1. medicineHaving the characteristics of asthma.

   asthmatic cough

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   The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

   1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71

plural asthmatics · alternative dated asthmatical · alternative obsolete asthmatick

1. medicineOne who suffers from asthma.