valetudinarian

  • 111delicate — adjective 1) delicate embroidery Syn: fine, exquisite, intricate, dainty; flimsy, gauzy, filmy, floaty, diaphanous, wispy, insubstantial Ant: coarse, crude 2) …

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  • 112ill — 1. adjective 1) she was feeling rather ill Syn: unwell, sick, not (very) well, ailing, poorly, sickly, peaked, indisposed, infirm; out of sorts, not oneself, bad, off, in a bad way, far gone; bedridden, valetudinarian …

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  • 113invalid — I 1. noun a home for invalids Syn: ill person, sick person, valetudinarian; patient, convalescent, shut in 2. adjective her invalid husband Syn: ill, sick, sickly, ailing, unwell, infirm, in poor health …

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  • 114ailing — adj 1. sick, sickly, sickened, ill; unhealthy, unsound, unwell; diseased, morbid, pathological, poisoned; in a bad way, on the sick list, done for, on the shelf; out of sorts, under the weather, not up to snuff; aching, sore, pained, smarting,… …

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  • 115bad — adj 1. virtueless, unrighteous, godless, impious, ungodly; immoral, amoral, nonmoral, unmoral, unprincipled, reprobate; corrupt, depraved, perverted, profligate, dissolute, libertine, abandoned, licentious; unscrupulous, dishonest, crooked,… …

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  • 116case — I n 1. instance, occurrence, occasion; happening, phenomenon, event, adventure; affair, concern, matter, business; precedent, antecedent, exemplar; representative, prototype, type, standard, model, paradigm, norm; example, illustration, sample,… …

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  • 117cripple — n 1. lame person, paralytic, amputee; invalid, convalescent, valetudinarian. v 2. lame, becripple, hamstring, hock, amputate; disable, incapacitate, debilitate; maim, mangle, mutilate, scar; hurt, abuse, injure, maltreat, misuse, do violence to;… …

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  • 118decrepit — adj 1. feeble, enfeebled, infirm, weak, weakened, weakly, emasculate, effete; aged, old, elderly, ancient; senile, anile, senescent, doddering, tottering; disabled, crippled, palsied, laid up, laid on one s back, bedridden, sickly, valetudinarian …

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  • 119ill — adj 1. sick, sickly, sickened, ailing; unhealthy, unsound, unwell, Sl. off one s feed, poorly; afflicted, diseased, morbid, poisoned, nauseated, strung out; in a bad way, on the sick list, Inf. under the weather, Inf. out of sorts, not up to… …

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  • 120indisposed — adj 1. sick, sickly, sickened, ill, ailing, valetudinarian; unhealthy, unsound, unwell, squeamish, queasy; in a bad way, on the sick list, Inf. under the weather, Inf. out of sorts, not up to snuff, Inf. on the blink; laid up, bedridden, confined …

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