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🐶 Sick with virus 😵 Unhealthy state 🎨 Painted with distemper
distempered

distempered

8.2
Sick with a disease that spreads and mainly affects dogs
  • adjective
  • /dɪsˈtɛmpərd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : infectado
  • The veterinarian confirmed that the puppy was distempered after showing symptoms of the illness.

Examples

  • They took in a distempered dog from the shelter to help nurse it back to health.

  • After weeks of treatment, the once distempered pet finally started to regain its energy.

  • itself like a distempered animal.

    Fiction book (1998)

Synonyms

infected
vsdistempered
5 3.3

Having germs like bacteria or viruses that make the body sick

refers to infection by one specific contagious viral disease mainly in dogs

How Sick

moribund
8 9.1
critical
917 4.0
distempered
  • Specialized
8.2
ill
632 1.0
unwell
18 1.0
healthy
695 1.0

Surface Forms

distempered positive

Morphology

distempered = distemper (transparent) = distemper + ed

Formed from the noun 'distemper' (disease) + '-ed' meaning 'affected with distemper', which is directly inferable if the disease sense is known.

Etymology

Distempered comes from the parts dis- 'not' and temper 'mix' or 'mood'. It originally meant 'out of balance', so it was used for animals in a bad, contagious state, which is why the sickness is called distemper.