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Valetudinarian

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Noun

1. valetudinarian

weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health

Adjective

2. valetudinarian, valetudinary

of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Valetudinarian

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noun plural -narians or -naries
1. 
a person who is or believes himself or herself to be chronically sick
2. 
a person excessively worried about the state of his or her health; hypochondriac
adjective
3. 
relating to, marked by, or resulting from poor health
4. 
being a valetudinarian
5. 
trying to return to a healthy state

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Valetudinarian

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noun
1. 
a person in poor health; invalid
2. 
one who thinks constantly and anxiously about one's own health
adjective
3. 
characterized by or in poor health; sickly
4. 
anxiously concerned about one's health

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Valetudinarian

see synonyms of valetudinarian
n.
A sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health.
adj.
1. Chronically ailing; sickly.
2. Constantly and morbidly concerned with one's health.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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