NEURASTHENIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neurasthenic mean? 

• NEURASTHENIC (noun)
  The noun NEURASTHENIC has 1 sense:

1. a person suffering a nervous breakdown

  Familiarity information: NEURASTHENIC used as a noun is very rare.

• NEURASTHENIC (adjective)
  The adjective NEURASTHENIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or suffering from neurasthenia

  Familiarity information: NEURASTHENIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEURASTHENIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person suffering a nervous breakdown

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("neurasthenic" is a kind of...):

diseased person; sick person; sufferer (a person suffering from an illness)

Derivation:

neurasthenic (of or relating to or suffering from neurasthenia)

• NEURASTHENIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or suffering from neurasthenia

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

neurasthenic tendencies

Pertainym:

neurasthenia (nervous breakdown (not in technical use))

Derivation:

neurasthenia (nervous breakdown (not in technical use))

neurasthenic (a person suffering a nervous breakdown)

 Context examples 

The cub reporter was an artist, and it was a large brush with which he laid on the local color—wild-eyed long-haired men, neurasthenic and degenerate types of men, voices shaken with passion, clenched fists raised on high, and all projected against a background of oaths, yells, and the throaty rumbling of angry men.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)