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SICK PERSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person suffering from an illness
Synonyms:
diseased person; sick person; sufferer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sick person" is a kind of...):
unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sick person"):
spewer; vomiter (a person who vomits)
valetudinarian (weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health)
syphilitic (a person suffering from syphilis)
rheumatic (a person suffering with rheumatism)
psycho; psychotic; psychotic person (a person afflicted with psychosis)
patient (a person who requires medical care)
mental case; neurotic; psychoneurotic (a person suffering from neurosis)
neurasthenic (a person suffering a nervous breakdown)
narcoleptic (a person who has narcolepsy)
monomaniac (a person suffering from monomania)
manic-depressive (a person afflicted with manic-depressive illness)
lunatic; madman; maniac (an insane person)
lazar; leper (a person afflicted with leprosy)
invalid; shut-in (someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury)
insomniac; sleepless person (someone who cannot sleep)
incurable (a person whose disease is incurable)
bleeder; haemophile; haemophiliac; hemophile; hemophiliac (someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding)
epileptic (a person who has epilepsy)
dyspeptic (a person suffering from indigestion)
diabetic (someone who has diabetes)
depressive (someone suffering psychological depression)
convalescent (a person who is recovering from illness)
consumptive; lunger; tubercular (a person with pulmonary tuberculosis)
bulimic (a person suffering from bulimia)
anorectic; anorexic (a person suffering from anorexia nervosa)
