Dictionary Definition
valetudinarian adj : of or relating to or
characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian n : weak or
sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her
health
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English
Etymology
From valētūdinārius, from valetudo state of health, health, ill health, from valere to be strong or well.Pronunciation
/ˌvæ.lə.ˌtuː.də.ˈnɛr.i.ən/Adjective
- Of infirm health;
seeking to recover
health; sickly; weakly;
infirm.
- The valetudinarian habit of discussing his health had grown on Rose... -- Florence Anne Sellar MacCunn, Sir Walter Scott's Friends, 1910, p. 234
Translations
of infirm health; sickly
- Bulgarian: болнав
- French: valétudinaire
- Greek: υποχονδριακός (ypochondriakós)
- Italian: valetudinario
- Spanish: valetudinario, valetudinaria
Synonyms
Noun
Translations
person obsessed with state of health
- Greek: υποχόνδριος (ypochóndrios)
Synonyms
References
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alcoholic, alternating
personality, antisocial personality, apoplectic, arthritic, cachectic, case, consumptive, debilitated, disordered
personality, disturbed personality, double personality, drained, drug user, dual
personality, dyspeptic, emotionally
unstable personality, enervated, epileptic, escapist, exhausted, failing, feeble, frail, healthless, hostile
personality, hypochondriac, hypochondriast, idiot, imaginary invalid, immature
personality, in poor health, inadequate personality, incurable, inferior
personality, infirm,
inpatient, invalid, languishing, malade
imaginaire, maladjusted personality, mentally defective
personality, moral insanity, moribund, multiple personality,
neuropath, neurotic, neurotic personality,
outpatient, pale, paranoid personality,
patient, peaked, peaky, perverse personality,
psychoneurotic,
psychopath,
psychopathic personality, psychotic, psychotic
personality, reduced,
reduced in health, rheumatic, run-down, schizoid, schizoid personality,
seclusive personality, sexual psychopath, shut-in, shut-in
personality, sick person, sickly, sociopath, spastic, split personality,
sufferer, terminal
case, the sick, unhealthy, unsound, valetudinary, weak
personality, weakened,
weakly, with low
resistance