Adjective: cachectic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more cachectic |
| Superlative | most cachectic |
Sample Sentences
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His horse has been restored to him (cachectic as ever, looking like one of the gutted nags the Druids used to impale for decoration) […] [1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 44:]
Adjectives inflected like cachectic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek κᾰχεκτῐκός (kăkhektĭkós)bor.
3. Latin cachecticusbor.
4. English cachectic
5. Borrowed from Latin cachecticus.