hypochondriac

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: hy=po=chon=dri=ac

CIDE DICTIONARY

hypochondriac, a. [Gr. affocated in the hypochondrium: cf. F. hypocondriaque, formerly spelt hypochondriaque.].

•  Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.  [1913 Webster]
•  Affected, characterized, or produced, by hypochondriasis.  [1913 Webster]

Hypochondriac region (Anat.), a region on either side of the abdomen beneath the cartilages of the false ribs, beside the epigastric, and above the lumbar, region.

hypochondriac, n. 

 A person affected with hypochondria.  [1913 Webster]
"He had become an incurable hypochondriac."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hypochondriac, n. & adj.
--n. a person suffering from hypochondria.
--adj. (also hypochondriacal) of or affected by hypochondria.

Etymology

F hypocondriaque f. Gk hupokhondriakos (as HYPOCHONDRIA)

THESAURUS

hypochondriac

alcoholic, alternating personality, antisocial personality, bowed-down, cast down, dashed, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, desponding, discouraged, disheartened, disordered, disordered personality, dispirited, disturbed, disturbed personality, double personality, down, downcast, downhearted, drooping, droopy, drug user, dual personality, emotionally unstable personality, escapist, feeling low, heartless, hostile personality, hypochondriacal, hypochondriast, hysteric, idiot, imaginary invalid, immature personality, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, inadequate personality, inferior personality, languishing, low, low-spirited, malade imaginaire, maladjusted personality, mentally defective personality, moral insanity, multiple personality, neurasthenic, neuropath, neurotic, neurotic personality, paranoid personality, perverse personality, pessimistic, phobic, pining, psychasthenic, psychoneurotic, psychopath, psychopathic personality, psychotic, psychotic personality, schizoid, schizoid personality, seclusive personality, sexual psychopath, shut-in personality, sociopath, spiritless, split personality, subdued, suicidal, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weak personality, weary of life, woebegone, world-weary

ROGET THESAURUS

hypochondriac

Dejection

N dejection, dejectedness, depression, prosternation, lowness of spirits, depression of spirits, weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits, low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits, heart sinking, heaviness of heart, failure of heart, heaviness, infestivity, gloom, weariness, taedium vitae, disgust of life, mal du pays, anhedonia, melancholy, sadness, il penseroso, melancholia, dismals, blues, lachrymals, mumps, dumps, blue devils, doldrums, vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis, pessimism, la maladie sans maladie, despondency, slough of Despond, disconsolateness, hope deferred, blank despondency, voiceless woe, prostration of soul, broken heart, despair, cave of despair, cave of Trophonius demureness, gravity, solemnity, long face, grave face, hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos, malade imaginaire, medecin tant pis, croaker, pessimist, mope, mopus, affliction, sorry sight, memento mori, damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter, cheerless, joyless, spiritless, uncheerful, uncheery, unlively, unhappy, melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful, dreary, flat, dull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwater, depressing, melancholy as a gib cat, oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, down in one's luck, heavy-hearted, in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums, in doleful dumps, in bad humor, sullen, mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping, moody, glum, sulky, out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits, ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low, weary, discouraged, disheartened, desponding, chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen, sad, pensive, penseroso, tristful, dolesome, doleful, woebegone, lacrymose, lachrymose, in tears, melancholic, hypped, hypochondriacal, bilious, jaundiced, atrabilious, saturnine, splenetic, lackadaisical, serious, sedate, staid, stayed, grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot, sober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, rueful, wan, long-faced, disconsolate, unconsolable, inconsolable, forlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole, sick at heart, soul sick, heart sick, au desespoir, in despair, lost, overcome, broken down, borne down, bowed down, heartstricken, cut up, dashed, sunk, unnerved, unmanned, down fallen, downtrodden, broken-hearted, careworn, with a long face, with tears in one's eyes, sadly, the countenance falling, the heart failing, the heart sinking within one, a plague of sighing and grief, thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy, the sickening pang of hope deferred.