alopecian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Suffering from or associated with hair loss.
noun
One who suffers from alopecia.
Example Sentences
- "He'd landed on top; Caull had struck his alopecian skull on the pole from which the national banner rose."
- "His comparative youth skilfully disguised, Graham-Hall had the advantage over Tear in a grey head of hair which made sense of his barber's-shop visits and also eliminated the novelist's physical resemblance — publicised by the December opera cover — to Michael Chance's alopecian Apollo."
- "This, we know, is peculiar to alopecian syphilis, as well as other diseases of syphilis, also of psoriasis."
- "Most partners take their cue from how the alopecian handles the problem. One older woman commented: "If you work on believing that you are still attractive and lovable, and expect him to think so too, he will usually rise to the occasion!"
- "Go to a support group. It gets easier knowing you are not alone. I don't intend to get over it, but I do intend to deal with it and support other alopecians."
- "To save on hairnets in his delicatessen, Santa hires only alopecians from the Appalachians."
Etymology
From alopecia + -an.