Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of, pertaining to, or resembling aphasia; suffering from aphasia.
  • noun A person affected with aphasia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Affected by, or pertaining to, aphasia.
  • noun One who is afflicted by symptoms of aphasia.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective unable to speak because of a brain lesion
  • adjective related to or affected by aphasia
  • noun someone affected by aphasia or inability to use or understand language

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Examples

  • (Even Ike's famously rambling press-conference answers, according to his press secretary, were purposeful obfuscations rather than aphasic incompetence.)

    Archive 2009-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • (Even Ike's famously rambling press-conference answers, according to his press secretary, were purposeful obfuscations rather than aphasic incompetence.)

    Synchronicity Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • From there she found nervy roles and they found her: an explosive pro boxer in "Fighting Words," a stuttering, seizure prone South Londoner in Sarah Kane's "Blasted," and a stammering aphasic in Sam Shepherd's "A Lie of the Mind."

    Meeting Her Match Lizzie Simon 2010

  • Like he recognizes it is English but in some aphasic way it doesnt make sense

    Think Progress » Limbaugh compares Pelosi to a terrorist for saying passing health care is more important than re-election. 2010

  • Most recent evidence shows that some infants who undego brain surgery do indeed suffer language impairment; and, conversely, that some aphasic adults may relocate part of their language functions in the right hemisphere (p. 98)

    A is for Age (of onset) « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • I remember meeting an aphasic patient in his 70s who had lost his English very largely but who was able to produce some words in a foreign language.

    Archive 2010-01-01 DC 2010

  • I remember meeting an aphasic patient in his 70s who had lost his English very largely but who was able to produce some words in a foreign language.

    On linguistic dreams DC 2010

  • Someone played saxophone badly on a rooftop a block away, and was still playing as my electric typewriter smacked the manuscript paper keeping broken time with the aphasic saxman.

    Giles Slade: The King of Pop (and Heartbreak) 2009

  • Whenever you so much as mention the idea of an Obama presidency to one of them, they become almost aphasic with inchaoate fear -- it's like they believe that the day he's inaugurated a vast secret army of gigantic black men will be unleashed for a Satanic orgy of rape and pillage and murder directed particularly toward old white women.

    Poll: Obama Struggling With Older Women 2009

  • Far less condescending to call that black candidate an aphasic idiot than to call him or her "articulate."

    BREAKING: Biden Unloads On Clinton, Obama, Edwards 2009

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