- valetudinarian
- n1. invalid, sickly person, infirm person, convalescent, shut-in, valetudinary; patient, inpatient, outpatient, case; sufferer, carrier, cripple, incurable, victim; hypochondriac, Pathol. neurasthenic, malingerer.adj2. invalid, sick, sickly, infirm, unwell, ill, ailing; weak, weakly, feeble, enfeebled, frail, helpless, debilitated; exhausted, prostrate, Pathol. neurasthenic; unhealthy, diseased, morbose, unsound, under doctor's care; indisposed, confined, laid up, bedridden; handicapped, palsied, crippled, disabled, lame; paralyzed, paralytic, Pathol. paretic; tubercular, consumptive; senescent, senile, doting, decrepit; flagging, dropping, moribund, dying.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.