Adjective: ailing
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more ailing |
| Superlative | most ailing |
Sample Sentences
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She cared for her ailing brother day in, day out.
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Based on the successful Class 59 but with a much more modern engine, what was to become the Class 66 was designed to replace much of the company's elderly and ailing locomotive fleet. [2021 February 24, “Fleet News: Class 66 history”, in RAIL, number 925, page 27:]
Adjectives inflected like ailing
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology