cachectic

1. 1.

   relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia

Questions about cachectic

What does cachectic mean?

cachectic means "relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia".

How many syllables are in cachectic?

cachectic has 3 syllables and divides as ca-chec-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is cachectic a common word?

cachectic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.