The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cachectic \Ca*chec"tic\, Cachectical \Ca*chec"tic*al\, a. [L.
cachecticus, Gr. ?????????: cf. F. cachectique.]
Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies;
cachectical blood.
--Arbuthnot.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from Latinized form of Greek kakhektikos "in a bad habit of body" (see cachexia).
Wiktionary
a. Having cachexia; wasting away from a disease or chronic illness.
WordNet
adj : relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia
Usage examples of "cachectic".
Bradshaw expected naturally to see a youth of imperfect constitution, and cachectic or dyspeptic tendencies, who was in training to furnish one of those biographies beginning with the statement that, from his infancy, the subject of it showed no inclination for boyish amusements, and so on, until he dies out, for the simple reason that there was not enough of him to live.
Miss Letty was altogether too wholesome, hearty, and high-strung a young girl to be a model, according to the flat-chested and cachectic pattern which is the classical type of certain excellent young females, often the subjects of biographical memoirs.
Bald and infected, quiet and cachectic, he was getting his life in order.
Even as they watched, the sun, perhaps fortuitously, underwent a cachectic spasm, and lurched alarmingly toward the horizon.