rheumatic

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: rheu=mat=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

rheumatic, a. [Gr. subject to a discharge or flux: cf. L. rheumaticus, F. rhumatique. See Rheum, Rheumatism.].

•  Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to rheumatism; as, rheumatic pains or affections; affected with rheumatism; as, a rheumatic old man; causing rheumatism; as, a rheumatic day.  [1913 Webster]

  "That rheumatic diseases do abound."  [1913 Webster]

rheumatic, n. 

 One affected with rheumatism.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rheumatic, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of, relating to, or suffering from rheumatism.
2 producing or produced by rheumatism.
--n. a person suffering from rheumatism.

Idiom

rheumatic fever a non-infectious fever with inflammation and pain in the joints.

Derivative

rheumatically adv. rheumaticky adj. colloq.

Etymology

ME f. OF reumatique or L rheumaticus f. Gk rheumatikos (as RHEUM)

THESAURUS

rheumatic

allergic, anemic, apoplectic, arthritic, 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, rickety, scorbutic, scrofulous, shut-in, sick person, spastic, sufferer, tabetic, tabid, terminal case, the sick, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, valetudinarian