See Also: defatigable(dictionary)

plegia (iou) and defatigable (iou)


plegia (iou)



-plegia suffix.
[from Greek plege blow, stroke (from plessein to strike) + -IA1.]
Medicine. Forming nouns denoting a kind of paralysis, as hemiplegia, paraplegia, etc.

defatigable (iou)



defatigable adjective. M17.
[Orig. (obsolete from E18) from DE- 1 + FATIGABLE. Later (M20) back-form. from INDEFATIGABLE.]
Easily wearied, apt to tire.
E. Waugh Then they lost interest. I did too. I was always the most defatigable of hacks.