valetudinarian
101weakly — Synonyms and related words: a bit, a la sourdine, a little, anemic, asthenic, barely, bloodless, by a hair, by an ace, cachectic, chicken, cowardly, daintily, debilitated, decrepit, delicately, dimly, drained, drooping, droopy, dull, effeminately …
102invalid — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I adj. void, null, worthless, useless, valueless, unusable. See nullification. II n. sufferer, patient, case, shut in; cripple. adj. sickly, ill, unhealthy, unwell, weak. See disease. II (Roget s IV)… …
103unhealthy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sickly, infirm, ailing, invalid; delicate, frail; undesirable, inauspicious, ominous. See disease. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Sickly] Syn. not well, sick, in a decline, in ill health, infirm,… …
104Disease — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Disease >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 disease disease Sgm: N 1 illness illness sickness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 ailing ailing &c.??? all the ills that flesh is heir to =>(Hamlet) Sgm: N 1 morbidity morbidity …
105not very well — very ill Hospital and valetudinarian jargon, which ignores the presumption that very well implies perfect health. Also as not at all well, which may indicate a fatal condition …
106valetudinary — [ˌvalɪ tju:dɪn(ə)ri] adjective &noun (plural valetudinaries) another term for valetudinarian …
107unhealthy — a. 1. Unsound, diseased, sickly, out of health, valetudinary, valetudinarian. 2. Unsound, diseased, sickly. 3. Sickly. 4. Unwholesome, insalubrious, deleterious, poisonous, morbific, unhealthful, noxious, unfavorable to health. 5. Morbid,… …
108weak — a. 1. Feeble, languid, weekly. 2. Sickly, debilitated, unhealthy, unsound, infirm, tender, valetudinary, valetudinarian, invalid, frail, delicate, fragile. 3. Defenceless, unguarded, exposed, unprotected. 4. Soft, pliant. 5. Pliable,… …
109invalid — I. a. 1. Weak, of no weight, of no force. 2. (Law.) Void, null, of no legal force, null and void. 3. Unsound, unfounded, baseless, untrue, fallacious, that does not hold (good). II. a. Weak, feeble, infirm, sick, sickly, weakly, frail,… …
110ailing — adjective 1) his ailing mother Syn: ill, sick, unwell, sickly, poorly, weak, indisposed, in poor/bad health, infirm, debilitated, diseased, delicate, valetudinarian, below par, bedridden; informal laid up, under the weather …
