Valetudinarian \Val`e*tu`di*na"ri*an\, a. [L. valetudinarius,
from valetudo state of health, health, ill health, fr. valere
to be strong or well: cf. F. val['e]tudinaire. See
Valiant.]
Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly;
infirm.
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My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach.
--Coleridge.
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The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue,
not a valetudinarian virtue. --Macaulay.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Valetudinarian \Val`e*tu`di*na"ri*an\, n.
A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking
to recover health.
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Valetudinarians must live where they can command and
scold. --Swift.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
WordNet (r) 2.0
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "valetudinarian":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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