Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Relating to or suffering from arthritis: Describes a condition, symptom, or person affected by arthritis, a disease causing inflammation and pain in the joints.
   • Stiff or creaky, as if affected by arthritis: Used figuratively to describe something that is stiff, slow-moving, or makes a creaking sound, reminiscent of arthritic joints.

2. Noun:

   • A person who has arthritis: Refers to an individual afflicted with the disease of arthritis.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • She has arthritic pain in her knees, especially in cold weather.
  • The old door swung open with an arthritic groan.
• Noun:
  • The new medication provided relief for many arthritics.
  • My grandmother, an arthritic, uses a cane to walk.

Advanced Usage

• Figurative Use: The adjective can describe non-living things that are stiff, slow, or noisy.
  • The arthritic bureaucracy made progress impossible.
  • He made arthritic progress through the dense report.

Variants and Related Words

• Arthritis (n): The disease itself, characterized by joint inflammation.
  • Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder.
• Arthritically (adv): In a manner relating to or resembling arthritis.
  • He moved arthritically out of the chair.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Rheumatic, gouty (specific to gout, a form of arthritis), stiff, creaky.
• Noun: Arthritis sufferer, rheumatic.

Antonyms

• Adjective: Limber, supple, flexible, agile.

Related Phrases

• Arthritic joint: A joint affected by arthritis.
  • The X-ray revealed severe damage to the arthritic joint.
• Arthritic condition: The state of having arthritis.
  • Managing her arthritic condition requires daily exercise.

Adjective

1. of or pertaining to arthritis
   • my creaky old joints
   • rheumy with age and grief

Noun

1. a person afflicted with arthritis
   • the hands of an elderly arthritic