neurasthenic

neurasthenia +‎ -ic = neur- +‎ asthenia +‎ -ic

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌnʊɹəsˈθɛnɪk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌnjʊəɹəsˈθɛnɪk/
• Hyphenation: neur‧as‧then‧ic
• Rhymes: -ɛnɪk

neurasthenic (comparative more neurasthenic, superlative most neurasthenic)

1. Of or pertaining to neurasthenia; that is, tendencies of a person who has suffered a nervous breakdown.

   They agreed to have no more family gatherings due to their father's neurasthenic presence.

   • 2020 October 3, Jessica Grose, “Mother’s Little Helper Is Back, and Daddy’s Partaking Too”, in New York Times‎:

     Middle-class parents’ self-medication has long been recreationalized, even romanticized in America (so long as they were white); think of sitcom dads pouring a drink and sinking into the BarcaLounger after a long day with Bob in accounting, or neurasthenic moms popping pink capsules while the casserole browns.

neurasthenic (plural neurasthenics)

1. (medicine, psychiatry, dated) A person who has neurasthenia.