paretic

1. 1.

   a person afflicted with paresis (partial paralysis)

   Broaderparalytic

Other forms of paretic

plural

paretics·

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 paretic

What does paretic mean?

paretic means "a person afflicted with paresis (partial paralysis)".

How many syllables are in paretic?

paretic has 3 syllables and divides as pa-re-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.