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Asthmatic vs Asthmatically - What's the difference?

asthmatic | asthmatically |

As an adjective asthmatic

is having the characteristics of asthma, as in an "asthmatic cough".

As a noun asthmatic

is a person who suffers from asthma.

As an adverb asthmatically is

in an asthmatic manner.

asthmatic

English

Alternative forms

* asthmatick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the characteristics of asthma, as in an "asthmatic cough"

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who suffers from asthma

    • asthmatically

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an asthmatic manner.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=P. G. Wodehouse, title=Right Ho, Jeeves, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He came in and stood breathing asthmatically . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1915, author=William J. Locke, title=Jaffery, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The Chinese Puffhard excelled herself, and though she choked asthmatically did not really stop once until we were half way up the drive, when I abandoned her to the gardeners, who later on harnessed the donkey to her and pulled her into the motor-house. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1864, author=John Hanning Speke, title=The Discovery of the Source of the Nile, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He was not an old man, though he affected to be so--walking very slowly and deliberately, coughing asthmatically , glimmering with his eyes, and mumbling like a witch. }}