tubercular

tubercular is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 19 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.
2. adjective. Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.
3. adjective. Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis.
4. noun. a person with pulmonary tuberculosis

   Synonyms: consumptive, lunger

5. adjective. constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus

   "a tubercular child"

   "tuberculous patients"

   Synonyms: tuberculous

6. adjective. relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it

   "a tubercular hospital"

7. adjective. pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle

   "a tubercular process for the attachment of a ligament or muscle"

8. adjective. characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles

   "tubercular leprosy"

Synonyms

consumptive, lunger, tuberculous

Common word forms

tubercularly, tubercularise, tubercularize, tubercularness

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