aphasic
aphasic — adjective
- aphasicpositive
- more aphasiccomparative
- most aphasicsuperlative
1. describing someone who has partly or completely lost the ability to use language
describing someone who has partly or completely lost the ability to use language — speaking, understanding, reading, or writing — usually after brain damage caused by a stroke or head injury; also used of things linked to this condition.
After the stroke, Haruto became aphasic and struggled to name everyday objects.
predicative: become aphasic after a medical event
The speech therapist designed gentle exercises for her aphasic patients each morning.
attributive: aphasic patient(s) before a noun
Doctors warned the family that Walid might stay aphasic for several months.
Lara's aphasic father could understand jokes but could not repeat the words.
Élise read slowly to her aphasic grandmother, who smiled at familiar names.
- dysphasic
near-synonym; strictly means partial language loss while aphasic suggests fuller loss, but the two are often used interchangeably
- language-impaired
broader, plainer term covering any difficulty with language, not only brain-injury cases
文法句型
aphasic + noun
become aphasic
用法筆記
Works both attributively (an aphasic patient) and predicatively (Haruto became aphasic). In clinical writing the same form also serves as a noun for a person with aphasia.