sclerotic
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9.9
- adjective
- /skləˈrɒtɪk/
- Specialized
:
esclerótico
- Over time, the sclerotic arteries can lead to serious cardiovascular problems.
- sclerotic plaque
Examples
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In that context, the sclerotic leadership in Moscow, having misjudged the West once in North Asia, might have misjudged the United States again.
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None of these explanations can account for the sudden and overwhelming collapse of what had appeared to be a perhaps increasingly sclerotic but certainly ironclad and invincible system of despotic control.
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That that is, for me, a sign of a system that is deeply sclerotic, that is unrepresentative.
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Democracy is, you know, it, it, it leads to very slow, sclerotic, inefficient kinds of governments.
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It is not easy to shake off a sclerotic and corrupt system that was in place for 60 years.
Blog text (28) -
The two lawsuits continue to work their way through Sri Lanka's sclerotic justice system.
Academic text (2011) -
Congress has to approve things like budgets and taxes, and in case you haven't noticed, Congress has become increasingly sclerotic.
Blog text (11) -
Other critics might assert that the FDA is a slow, sclerotic bureaucracy with an unduly expensive approval process requiring the presentation of expensive scientific data.
Academic text (2018) -
It concurs with a lack of economic dynamism that led to sclerotic growth then and the euro zone's sovereign-debt crisis now.
Blog text (28) -
In Algeria, as elsewhere, an Islamic movement with strong fundamentalist leanings was the only organized opposition to a self-serving, sclerotic regime.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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9.9
Made hard, especially body tissue or blood vessels that carry blood less well
Compounds
How Hard
Surface Forms
Morphology
sclerotic = sclerosis (transparent) = scler + otic
Direct adjectival formation from 'sclerosis' indicating a relation to or state caused by hardening, which is a regular medical derivation.
Etymology
Sclerotic also comes from the Greek root skleros, 'hard', and is the root of sclerosis, which means 'hardening'. So when something is called sclerotic it means it has become 'hardened' or stuck and hard to change.