asthmatic

• asthmatical (dated)
• asthmatick (obsolete)

Learned borrowing from Latin asthmaticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσθματικός (asthmatikós, “afflicted with shortness of breath”), from ἆσθμα (âsthma, “short-drawn breath, panting”) (compare asthma). By surface analysis, asthma +‎ -ic.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /æsˈθmætɪk/, /æsˈmætɪk/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /æzˈmætɪk/
• Rhymes: -ætɪk

asthmatic (comparative more asthmatic, superlative most asthmatic)

1. Having the characteristics of asthma, as in an "asthmatic cough".
   • 1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories‎, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71:

     The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

asthmatic (plural asthmatics)

1. A person who suffers from asthma.