pathological
pronunciation
How to pronounce pathological in British English:
UK [ˌpæθəˈlɒdʒɪkl]
How to pronounce pathological in American English:
US [ˌpæθəˈlɑdʒɪkl]
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to the practice of pathology
- caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition
- caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology
Word Origin
- pathological (adj.)
- 1680s, "pertaining to disease," formed in English from pathologic + -al (1). Sense of "worthy to be a subject of pathology, morbid, excessive" (as in pathological liar) is attested from 1845. Related: Pathologically.
Example
- 1. Answer these questions to see if your perspiration is pathological
- 2. Left-handedness has sometimes been treated as pathological .
- 3. Myers makes a persuasive case that we should instead regard the kim jong-il system as a phenomenon of the very extreme and pathological right .
- 4. He used the same criteria used to evaluate pathological gambling in the dsm , the diagnostic standard for psychiatric disorders .
- 5. Furthermore , the cs norms are not representative of the population and actually classify a portion of normal subjects as having pathological tendencies .