

Oct 16, 2013 This week's theme

Words from diseases



This week's words

measly

anemic

sclerotic

cancerous

pestilent

Words from diseases A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



sclerotic PRONUNCIATION: (skluh-ROT-ik)

MEANING: adjective:

1. Hard, rigid, slow to adapt or respond.

2. Relating to or affected with sclerosis, an abnormal hardening of a tissue or part.

3. Of or relating to the sclera, the white fibrous outer layer of the eyeball.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek skleros (hard). Earliest documented use: 1543.

USAGE: "It was getting to be late in the afternoon, and the traffic was crabby and sclerotic."

Miss Wyoming; Douglas Coupland; Random House; 2000.



"This group decided that if the government bureaucracy had grown so sclerotic, it was time for a small, professional group of private citizens to give attention to delicate problems of the world."

Gene Coyle; Diamonds and Deceit; AuthorHouse; 2011.

See more usage examples of sclerotic in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.



A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)





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