neurasthenic

English

Etymology

From neurasthenia +‎ -ic or neur- +‎ asthenia +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌnʊɹəsˈθɛnɪk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌnjʊəɹəsˈθɛnɪk/
• Hyphenation: neur‧as‧then‧ic
• Rhymes: -ɛnɪk

Adjective

neurasthenic (comparative more neurasthenic, superlative most neurasthenic)

1. Of or pertaining to neurasthenia; that is, tendencies of a person who has suffered a nervous breakdown.

   They agreed to have no more family gatherings due to their father's neurasthenic presence.

   • 2020 October 3, Jessica Grose, “Mother’s Little Helper Is Back, and Daddy’s Partaking Too”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Middle-class parents’ self-medication has long been recreationalized, even romanticized in America (so long as they were white); think of sitcom dads pouring a drink and sinking into the BarcaLounger after a long day with Bob in accounting, or neurasthenic moms popping pink capsules while the casserole browns.

Translations

pertaining to neurasthenia

• Catalan: neurastènic
• Finnish: neurasteeninen
• French: neurasthénique (fr)
• German: neurasthenisch (de)
• Irish: néaraistéineach
• Italian: nevrastenico
• Russian: неврастени́ческий (ru) (nevrasteníčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: неурастѐничан

  Latin: neurastèničan (sh)

• Welsh: niwrasthenig

Noun

neurasthenic (plural neurasthenics)

1. (medicine, psychiatry, dated) A person who has neurasthenia.

Translations

person who has neurasthenia

• Dutch: zenuwlijder (nl) m
• Finnish: neurasteenikko
• German: Neurastheniker (de) m, Neurasthenikerin (de) f
• Russian: неврасте́ник (ru) m (nevrasténik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: неурастѐнӣк m

  Latin: neurastènīk (sh) m