neuralgic

1. 1.

   of or relating to or suffering from neuralgia

   “neuralgic pains”

Questions about neuralgic

What does neuralgic mean?

neuralgic means "of or relating to or suffering from neuralgia".

How many syllables are in neuralgic?

neuralgic has 4 syllables and divides as ne-u-ral-gic 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 neuralgic a common word?

neuralgic 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.