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allergic
CIDE DICTIONARY
allergic, adj.
- of or pertaining to allergy. [WordNet 1.5]
- having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibilty especially to a specific factor [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
allergic, adj.
1 (foll. by to) a having an allergy to. b colloq. having a strong dislike for (a person or thing).
2 caused by or relating to an allergy.
1 (foll. by to) a having an allergy to. b colloq. having a strong dislike for (a person or thing).
2 caused by or relating to an allergy.
THESAURUS
allergic
anaphylactic, anemic, apoplectic, arthritic, averse, bilious, cancerous, chlorotic, colicky, consumptive, delicate, disaffected, disenchanted, disinclined, displeased, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, empathetic, empathic, encephalitic, epileptic, goosy, hostile, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, irritable, itchy, laryngitic, leprous, luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, nervous, neuralgic, neuritic, not charmed, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, palsied, paralytic, passible, phthisic, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, prickly, put off, rachitic, refined, responsive, rheumatic, rickety, scorbutic, scrofulous, sensitive, skittish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tabetic, tabid, tactful, tender, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, unfriendlyFor further exploring for "allergic" in Webster Dictionary Online