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say it: ahr-THRIT-ik
arthritic is a noun and adjective meaning "a person afflicted with arthritis". It is pronounced /ɑɹˈθɹɪtɪk/ — ahr-THRIT-ik. It carries 2 recorded senses.
of or pertaining to arthritis
“my creaky old joints”
“rheumy with age and grief”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for arthritic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.