sclerotic
pronunciation
How to pronounce sclerotic in British English:
UK [sklə'rɒtɪk]
How to pronounce sclerotic in American English:
US [sklə'rɒtɪk]
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- Adjective:
- relating to or having sclerosis; hardened
- of or relating to the sclera of the eyeball
Word Origin
- sclerotic (adj.)
- early 15c., "pertaining to sclerosis," from medical Latin scleroticus, from Greek skleroun (see sclerosis). Figurative meaning "unchanging, rigid" is from 1961.
Example
- 1. Big reforms of a sclerotic state sector are urgently needed .
- 2. This supposedly sclerotic continent includes three of the world 's five best-performing and most competitive economies : denmark , finland and sweden .
- 3. He fears that the democrats , if left unchecked , will turn the country into a sclerotic european-style social democracy .
- 4. But russia prefers to be judged against other fast-growing bric economies rather than an ageing , sclerotic europe .
- 5. Yet in the six months since the revolution , the supreme council of the armed forces has done little to free up egypt 's sclerotic economy .