Lymphatic

Quick meaning: Lymphatic is an adjective meaning (anatomy) Pertaining to lymph or the lymphatic system.

Meaning

(anatomy) Pertaining to lymph or the lymphatic system.

More Meanings

1. (anatomy) A vessel that transports lymph.
2. Lacking energy or enthusiasm; having characteristics once associated with an excess of lymph: lack of muscle tone, paleness, sluggishness, etc.
3. (obsolete) Madly enthusiastic; frantic.

Example Sentences

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?—

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.

Hari, the holy man, who was to be the pundit that day, was just as Mr Biswas remembered him, just as soft-spoken and lymphatic. His felt hat sat softly on his head. He greeted Mr Biswas without rancour, without pleasure, without interest.

Word Forms

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