pyretic
py·ret·ic
adj \pī-ˈre-tik\Definition of PYRETIC
: of or relating to fever : febrile
Origin of PYRETIC
New Latin pyreticus, from Greek pyretikos, from pyretos fever, from pyr
First Known Use: circa 1858
Rhymes with PYRETIC
aesthetic, ascetic, athletic, balletic, bathetic, cometic, cosmetic, eidetic, emetic, frenetic, gametic, genetic, hermetic, limnetic, magnetic, mimetic, noetic, Ossetic, paretic, pathetic, phenetic, phonetic, phyletic, poetic, prophetic, prosthetic, splenetic, syncretic, syndetic, synthetic, tonetic, Venetic
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