Rachitic

Quick meaning: Rachitic is an adjective meaning (figurative) In a precarious or weak condition; likely to break down or collapse; feeble, rickety.

Meaning

(figurative) In a precarious or weak condition; likely to break down or collapse; feeble, rickety.

More Meanings

1. (pathology) Of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets (“a disorder of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft or weak bones”).

Example Sentences

Nor was there time to do much more than distribute some sweet to the pallid rachitic children.

Even as he thought this he saw, leaping from the last stair of a rachitic escalator, down there, a blond girl in a blue dress, bright in the brown darkness.

His companions—now I could see them as well. […] Tiny, nocturnal, twittering, they were like rachitic children, and as one went past me I saw mongoloid features and a bald head.

Gumbril Senior occupied a tall, narrow-shouldered and rachitic house in a little obscure square not far from Paddington. […] It was a prematurely old and decaying house in a decaying quarter.

Synonyms for rachitic

Depending on context, synonyms include rickety.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rosary, scrofulo-rachitic, rachialgic, rheumaticky, rachidial, rickettsial.

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