Relating Group Sclerotic Skluh Rot Ik Adjective Hard Rigid Slow

sclerotic /skluh-ROT-ik/

adjective

1. Hard, rigid, slow to adapt or respond.

2. Relating to or affected with sclerosis, an abnormal hardening of a tissue or part.

3. Of or relating to the sclera, the white fibrous outer layer of the eyeball.

[From Greek skleros (hard). Earliest documented use: 1543.]

"It was getting to be late in the afternoon, and the traffic was crabby and sclerotic." - Miss Wyoming; Douglas Coupland; Random House; 2000.

"This group decided that if the government bureaucracy had grown so sclerotic, it was time for a small, professional group of private citizens to give attention to delicate problems of the world." - Gene Coyle; Diamonds and Deceit; AuthorHouse; 2011.