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English
Etymology
From rachitis + -ic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
rachitic (comparative more rachitic, superlative most rachitic)
- (medicine) Pertaining to or affected by rickets.
1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 761:Nor was there time to do much more than distribute some sweet to the pallid rachitic children.
- Feeble, in a weak or precarious condition.
1923, Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay:a tall, narrow-shouldered and rachitic house in a little obscure square.
- December 8 1947, "FOREIGN EXCHANGE: Bold Gamble" Time Magazine
- nations with over-valued rachitic currencies
1983 [1981], John Crowley, “The Fairies' Parliment”, in Little, Big, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 576:Even as he thought this he saw, leaping from the last stair of a rachitic escalator, down there, a blond girl in a blue dress, bright in the brown darkness.
Derived terms
Translations
of, relating to, or affected by rickets
resembling or suggesting the condition of one suffering from rickets
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