Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Characterized by necrosis; exhibiting necrosis: dead, as applied to tissues.
Wiktionary
- adj. pathology Of or pertaining to necrosis, particularly of tissue.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Med.) Affected with necrosis; ; characterized by, or producing, necrosis.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or affected by necrosis
Examples
“I prefer the term necrotic pustular basket of cowards, cheats, thieves, swindlers, con-artists, fuckwits lying bastards, child abusers and war criminals.”
“Is that considered some kind of necrotic cannibalism?”
“Part of the brain's left side was "necrotic", meaning the tissue was already dead.”
“Severe brain injury usually produces an immediate "necrotic" death of nerve cells, but this damage is often followed by a secondary wave of injury that can last weeks, months, and even years, Burns says.”
“The No. 1 mistake today is using the wrong word - "necrotic," for example, instead of "neurotic" - faults attributed partly to the vagaries of spellcheck.”
“The Comedy is the story of a man poking at his necrotic self, trying to find the pink bits.”
The Huffington Post: Heather Donahue: Sundance 2012: The Comedy
“The most necrotic section of the board is the "Comics Journal" section itself, where people only post to bitch that their subscription copies are late.”
“Can Muslims even suffer individually, when the temptation is to assume our rigid, practically necrotic homogeneity?”
The Huffington Post: Haroon Moghul: It Hurts to Be Muslim, Too
“It's when you have a boner for so long, it rots and falls off, like you rubbed it on a leper's sagging necrotic tits.”
“The blisters may become filled with a cheese-like necrotic tissue that may progress to ulcerations, full thickness tissue loss and even the loss of fingers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘necrotic’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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phrontistery - n
from phrontistery.info
nacarat, nacelle, nacket, nacre, nacreous, naevus, naiant, nail, nainsook, naissant, nanism, nanization and 340 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Devans00's Wonder Words
Words that catch my fancy. Make me wish I was clever enough to work them into conversation without upsetting people.
sweven, combat nap, junior moment, smithereens, requel, interesting, ityf, beerboarding, mouse potato, skimmington, destinesia, louche and 15 more...
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Shades of Black
Objects that are black, shades of lack, or something with blackness within.
lampblack, pitch, crow, obsidian, coal, charcoal, soot, midnight, raven, peacock, starless, bible and 22 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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hildjj's Words
bookmarklet, demisemiquaver, zeitgeist, hermeneutics, oligarch, quisling, absinthe, mellifluent, verisimilitude, implacable, necrotic, nacreous and 243 more...
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gcherches's Words
serendipity, roadrunner, inner child, coagulant, esquire, vicissitude, idiot savant, mitigation, affirmation, affirmative, diatribe, affirmative action and 185 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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jimmynewland's Words
steganography, incunabulum, dog days, geekhood, risorgimento, ab initio, slugabed, humanism, diddly-squat, doch-an-dorris, snickersnee, rictus and 198 more...
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the physical experience
wank, snog, tendon, sinew, sauce shelf, pet, arse, astigmatism, bisexual, brassiere, breast, climax and 186 more...
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MacBean's Words
verisimilitude, antediluvian, schadenfreude, eviscerate, exsanguinate, onomatopoeia, aesthetic, apocryphal, aubergine, byronic, brouhaha, bordello and 523 more...
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Words 2011
New words that I've read in 2011
mendacity, drogue, caisson, fakement, abattoir, specious, barbican, inimical, argot, wot, sotto voce, nonce and 76 more...
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Czech_Hedgehog's Words
calyx, necrotic, aposematic, floccinauccinihil..., solitude, metanoia, katana, mediocre, trafalgar, eosinophil, deviant, the and 47 more...
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The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
Words and phrases from Chris Wooding's book, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray.
griddle, overhead, circumscribe, mawkish, lour, coccyx, stetson, barrister, glut, heath, swill, grog and 47 more...
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