Hydroptic

Acceptable For Game Play - UK word list

This word is acceptable for play in the UK dictionary that is being used in the following games:

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or affected with hydropsy; dropsical; hence, thirsty.
  • Word Usage
    "It is not only that they show little of Donne's subtlety of mind or 'hydroptic, immoderate thirst of human learning', but they want, what gives its interest to this subtle and fantastic misapplication of learning, —the complexity of mood, the range of personal feeling which lends such fullness of life to Donne's strange and troubled poetry."