tuberculous

1. 1.

   constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus

   “a tubercular child”

   “tuberculous patients”

   “tubercular meningitis”

   Synonymstubercular

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Questions about tuberculous

What does tuberculous mean?

tuberculous means "constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus".

How many syllables are in tuberculous?

tuberculous has 4 syllables: tu-ber-cu-lous. The stress falls on "ber".

What is another word for tuberculous?

Close synonyms include tubercular. 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 tuberculous a common word?

tuberculous 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.