nephritic

1. 1.

   affected by nephritis
2. 2.

   of or relating to the kidneys

   Synonymsrenal

Questions about nephritic

What does nephritic mean?

nephritic means "affected by nephritis". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nephritic?

nephritic has 3 syllables and divides as neph-ri-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.

What is another word for nephritic?

Close synonyms include renal. 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 nephritic a common word?

nephritic 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.