valetudinarian

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: val=e=tu=di=nar=i=an

CIDE DICTIONARY

valetudinarian, a. [L. valetudinarius, from valetudo state of health, health, ill health, fr. valere to be strong or well: cf. F. valétudinaire. See Valiant.].

 Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.  [1913 Webster]
"My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach."  [1913 Webster]
"The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue."  [1913 Webster]

valetudinarian, n. 

 A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health.  [1913 Webster]
"Valetudinarians must live where they can command and scold."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

valetudinarian, n. & adj.
--n. a person of poor health or unduly anxious about health.
--adj.
1 of or being a valetudinarian.
2 of poor health.
3 seeking to recover one's health.

Derivative

valetudinarianism n.

Etymology

L valetudinarius in ill health f. valetudo -dinis health f. valere be well

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

valetudinarian

Disease

N disease, illness, sickness, ailing, all the ills that flesh is heir to, morbidity, morbosity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition, complaint, disorder, malady, distemper, distemperature, visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit, delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy, cachexia, atrophy, marasmus, indigestion, dyspepsia, decay, decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration, taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation, epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic, murrain, plague, pestilence, pox, sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil, pimple, wen, carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue, rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore, cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor, caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy, eruption, rash, breaking out, fever, temperature, calenture, inflammation, ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis, Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera, biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea, blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash, breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever, heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy, hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis, cholera, asphyxia, chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre, enanthem, enanthema, erysipelas, exanthem, exanthema, gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness, grip, grippe, influenza, flu, hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw, measles, mumps, polio, necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough, yellow fever, yellow jack, fatal disease, dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough, general breaking up, break up of the system, idiocy insanity, martyr to disease, cripple, the halt the lame and the blind, valetudinary, valetudinarian, invalid, patient, case, sickroom, sick- chamber, pathology, etiology, nosology, anthrax, bighead, blackleg, blackquarter, cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness, heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms, quarter-evil, quarter-ill, rinderpest, virus, bacterium, bacteria, DNA virus, RNA virus, rhinovirus, rhabdovirus, picornavirus, herpesvirus, cytomegalovirus, CMV, human immunodefficiency virus, HIV, diseased, ailing, ill, ill of, taken ill, seized with, indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy, affected with illness, afflicted with illness, laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list, out of health, out of sorts, under the weather, valetudinary, unsound, unhealthy, sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced, drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting, morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered, rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core, withered, palsied, paralytic, dyspeptic, luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic, syntectic, syntectical, tabetic, varicose, touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping, hors de combat, weakly, weakened, decrepit, decayed, incurable, in declining health, cranky, in a bad way, in danger, prostrate, moribund, morbific epidemic, endemic, zymotic.

Salubrity

N salubrity, healthiness, fine air, fine climate, eudiometer, hygiene, valetudinarian, valetudinarianism, sanitarian, sanitarium, sanitOrium, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, wholesome, healthy, healthful, sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious, hygeian, hygienic, innoxious, innocuous, innocent, harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious, sanative, restorative, useful.