Adjective: amyotrophic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more amyotrophic |
| Superlative | most amyotrophic |
Sample Sentences
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The “Euphoria” and “Grey’s Anatomy” actor announced on Thursday that he has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. [2025 April 10, Dan Heching, “Eric Dane shares that he has been diagnosed with ALS”, in CNN:]
Adjectives inflected like amyotrophic
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
1. Etymology tree
2. English amyotrophy
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
4. Proto-Italic *-ikos
5. Latin -icuslbor.
6. Old French -iquebor.
7. Middle English -ik
8. English -ic
9. English amyotrophic
10. From amyotrophy + -ic.
Verbs referencing "amyotrophic"
Finnish Adjectives
amyotrofinen.