Scrofulous (Adjective)

Meaning ¹

Afflicted with scrofula.

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Examples

• The scrofulous lesions on the young girl's neck were a painful reminder of her untreated condition.
• The doctor suspected that the boy's chronic cough was a symptom of a more serious scrofulous disease.
• After months of treatment, the scrofulous swellings on the patient's neck had finally begun to recede.
• The town was plagued by a scrofulous epidemic that left many children disfigured and debilitated.
• The doctor prescribed a series of medications to treat the scrofulous infection that had ravaged the patient's joints.

Related Words

• Scrofula (noun)

Meaning ²

Having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula; "our canoe...lay with her scrofulous sides on the shore"- Farley Mowat.

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Meaning ³

Morally contaminated; "denounce the scrofulous wealth of the times"- J.D.Hart.

Classification

All adjective clusters.