arthritic
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5.1
- adjective
- /ɑrˈθrɪtɪk/
:
artrítico
- My mother struggles with arthritic hands, making it difficult for her to button her shirt.
- arthritic joints
- arthritic disorders
- arthritic hand
My fingers are too arthritic to work the little clasp.
- My fingers are too arthritic to work the little clasp.
Examples
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But those joints can get arthritic, they can get inflamed.
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Good sporting footwear is recommended, which would give sufficient support to arthritic ankles and feet without restrictions.
Academic text (2012) -
My brother's got the same arthritic condition.
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If you are arthritic, then you need to keep moving even though it hurts a bit to keep moving.
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My fingers are too arthritic to work the little clasp.
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Soon, Columbus knew, his arthritic and gout-ridden body would fail him, and it would be too late.
Academic text (1992) -
Her eyes were rheumy, her knuckles huge and arthritic, but she rose from the bed when the door opened.
Fiction book (2001) -
Her fingers were short and arthritic, speckled with sunspots, swollen at the joints.
Fiction book (2001) -
Their aging pets: the half-bald cat, the arthritic dog creeping down the sidewalk next to his creeping owner.
Fiction book (1998) -
Turned out that people who made jars, jams and peanut butter and stuff like that found that arthritic patients or elderly patients were having trouble opening the jars.
Synonyms
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7.5
Causing pain and stiffness in the joints or muscles
Having pain in the joints
How Arthritic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Arthritic comes from the word arthritis, where arthro- means 'joint' and -itis means 'inflammation'. So something arthritic has pain or stiffness in its joints.