valetudinary

Definition of Valetudinary in English :

1. valetudinarian, valetudinary

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Valetudinary

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

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

adj.

Of, relating to, or typical of a valetudinarian.

n. pl. val·e·tu·di·nar·ies

A valetudinarian.