valetudinarian

  • 121languid — adj 1. faint, weak, feeble, poor, unhealthy, frail, anemic, Pathol. atonic; declining, on the decline, fading, sickly, valetudinarian; powerless, strengthless, invalid; flagging, drooping, languishing, weary, tired, exhausted, debilitated; spent …

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  • 122patient — n 1. sick or ill person, infirm person, hospital case, case; asylum inmate, convalescent, outpatient, shut in, valetudinarian; sufferer, victim, disease victim, accident victim, surgical case. adj 2. uncomplaining, long suffering, enduring,… …

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  • 123run-down — adj 1. unhealthy, in poor health, sickly, peaked, with low resistance, languishing, on one s last legs; debilitated, valetudinarian, Inf. off one s feed, below par, not oneself, laid low, Sl. in a bad way, Inf. far gone; weakened, out of… …

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  • 124shut-in — adj 1. house bound, confined, Inf. confined to quarters, incarcerated, captive of one s surroundings; enclosed, hemmed in, kept in; cooped up, immured, locked up, shut away; constricted, restricted, helpless, laid up, bedridden, disabled,… …

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  • 125sick — adj 1. ill, ailing, unwell, unhealthy, sickly, delicate; indisposed, laid up, bedridden, infirm, valetudinarian, confined, shut in; hurt, afflicted, injured, lame, disabled, crippled; not up to snuff, Inf. out of sorts, Inf. under the weather, on …

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  • 126sort — n 1. kind, class, category, genre, order; lot, style, manner, cast, mold, stamp, brand, kidney; grain, make, mark; color, stripe, streak, feather, vein; nature, aspect, character; group, set, suit, variety, genus, species, phylum, subgenus,… …

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  • 127sufferer — n tolerator, endurer, stoic; victim, martyr, shorn lamb; patient, case, invalid, cripple; convalescent; hypochondriac, valetudinarian …

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  • 128unwell — adj ill, ailing, indisposed, afflicted, sick, Inf. sick as a dog, Inf. under the weather, Inf. out of sorts, Inf. not feeling oneself, Sl. off one s feed; in poor health, poorly, unhealthy; sickly, pale, pallid, wan, sallow; anemic, washed out,… …

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