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 ofaphasia .
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
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(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
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(Even Ike's famously rambling press-conference answers, according to his press secretary, were purposeful obfuscations rather than aphasic incompetence.)
Synchronicity Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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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
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Like he recognizes it is English but in some aphasic way it doesnt make sense
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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)
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Far less condescending to call that black candidate an aphasic idiot than to call him or her "articulate."
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