lymphatic

CEFRC1

/lɪmˈfæ.tɪk/

adjective · noun

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  1. 01

    adjective

    Related to the body system that carries lymph.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Lacking energy or enthusiasm; having characteristics once associated with an excess of lymph: lack of muscle tone, paleness, sluggishness, etc.

Examples

  • Benedito's spa has a lymphatic drainage machine.

  • The spa offers lymphatic drainage massages.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Madly enthusiastic; frantic.

  2. Pertaining to lymph or the lymphatic system.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A vessel that transports lymph.

More examples

In context

  • Eleonore Lemindre, aged 34, tailoress, of a sanguine lymphatic temperament, having suffered great depression of spirits, experienced, in the course of 1820, symptoms of what is called disease of the heart.

  • He was a lymphatic, half-witted Hindu youth, who lived his life in almost complete silence[…]

  • Who has not marked, where the full cheek should be, Incipient lines of lank flaccidity, Lymphatic pallor where the pink should glow, And where the throb of transport, pulses low?—

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Origin

adjective

From lymph + -atic.