hydropathic
adjective, noun
hydropathic is an adjective meaning “Relating to or offering hydropathy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-P-A-T-H-I-C, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hydropathic mean?
adjective
- 1
Relating to or offering hydropathy.
- 2
Relating to hydropathicity.
noun
- 1
A temperance hotel offering hydropathy to guests.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hydropathic
- more hydropathic comparative
- most hydropathic superlative
- hydropathics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydropathic?
Hydropathic appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hydropathic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to hydropathy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hydropathe |
| Spanish | hidropático, hidroterápico |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hydropathic come from?
From hydro- + -pathic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).