dyspeptic

Other forms of dyspeptic

plural

dyspeptics·

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.

Questions about dyspeptic

What does dyspeptic mean?

dyspeptic means "suffering from dyspepsia". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dyspeptic?

dyspeptic has 3 syllables: dys-pep-tic. The stress falls on "pep". In IPA it is /ˌdɪˈspɛptɪk/.

What is another word for dyspeptic?

Close synonyms include atrabilious, bilious, liverish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dyspeptic a common word?

dyspeptic 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.