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Of a language impairment
Answer for the clue "Of a language impairment ", 7 letters:
aphasic
Alternative clues for the word aphasic
Word definitions for aphasic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1868 (n.); 1892 (adj.), from aphasia + -ic .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Affected by, or pertaining to, aphasia. n. One who is afflicted by symptoms of aphasia.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aphasic \A*pha"sic\, a. Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. related to or affected by aphasia; "aphasic speech" unable to speak because of a brain lesion n. someone affected by aphasia or inability to use or understand language
Usage examples of aphasic.
Japanese woman on a bare stage, gesturing in the stylized manner of Noh drama, and it ends seventy-five minutes later with a naked man, emaciated and aphasic, trying desperately to tell us something.
Brain damage had left him aphasic, without the power to speak or read.
And the Hibakusha fled and took to bed Law, and so were born the Aphasics, the Friends of God, the Astriers, Autists, Maggids and Arhats of Newvania.
Japanese woman on a bare stage, gesturing in the stylized manner of Noh drama, and it ends seventy-five minutes later with a naked man, emaciated and aphasic, trying desperately to tell us something.
Brain damage had left him aphasic, without the power to speak or read.
It coaxed him to use a language of gestures that must have been developed for disabled aphasics on Earth, a handy mix of hand motions, eye flicks, and plain old pointing that usually conveyed what he wanted.