🧠 Unable to speak 🧠 A person with aphasia

aphasic

1 9.9

Having trouble speaking or understanding language after a brain injury

adjective
/əˈfeɪzɪk/

Specialized

: afásico

After his stroke, he became aphasic and struggled to express his thoughts verbally.
aphasic patients

Examples

Bogdan believes that the stress of unemployment was the cause of the stroke that left his father partially paralyzed and aphasic.

Academic text (2000)
The therapist worked with her to improve communication skills as she was aphasic after the accident.
And sometimes people who are aphasic and have lost the power of language can get it back through through music.
She, who is known for wit in crisis, has gone aphasic.

Fiction book (1991)
And he spoke some complete sentences. "Then he's not aphasic," she said.

Fiction book (1992)
She demonstrated remarkable resilience, and despite being aphasic, she used gestures to convey her ideas.

Synonyms

aphasiac

vsaphasic

Specialized

1 9.9

Having trouble speaking or understanding words after a brain injury

is the same meaning but uses a different word ending or form

Antonyms

fluent

6 2.8

Expressing yourself easily and clearly in speech, writing, or performance

communicative

5 3.8

Willing to talk and share information or feelings

How Aphasic

aphasic

Specialized

1 9.9

nonaphasic

Specialized

9.6

Surface Forms

aphasic positive

Morphology

aphasic = aphasia (transparent) = aphasia + ic

The adjective is formed regularly from the noun 'aphasia' with '-ic' meaning 'relating to', so the semantic link is direct.

Etymology

Aphasic comes from Greek parts a- meaning 'not' and phasia meaning 'speech', and it has the same root as the word phrase. So, when someone or their speech is described as aphasic, it means they have trouble speaking or understanding language, often after a brain injury or stroke.