Valetudinarian

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health: "She affected to be spunky about her ailments and afflictions, but she was in fact an utterly self-centered valetudinarian” ( Louis Auchincloss).
  • adj. Chronically ailing; sickly.
  • adj. Constantly and morbidly concerned with one's health.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. sickly, infirm, of ailing health
  • adj. being overly worried about one's health
  • n. A person in poor health or sickly, especially one who is constantly obsessed with their state of health
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.
  • n. A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Being in a poor state of health; weak; infirm; invalid; delicate; seeking to recover health.
  • n. A person of a weak, infirm, or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health; an invalid.
  • n. Also valetudinary.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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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    sickly    weakly    infirm    ailing    hypochondriac   
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