sclerotic
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Medicine adjective
Describing bone that appears abnormally dense and white on imaging.
A sclerotic focus in the vertebra was noted and compared with previous studies.
Business adjective
Rigid and unable to adapt, as if hardened with age.
He inherited a sclerotic bureaucracy where every decision needed five signatures.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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