From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Valetudinarian \Val'e*tu'di*na"ri*an\, noun A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health.
Valetudinarians must live where they can command and scold. --Swift.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Valetudinarian \Val'e*tu'di*na"ri*an\, adjective [L. valetudinarius, from valetudo state of health, health, ill health, fr. valere to be strong or well: cf. F. val['e]tudinaire. See {Valiant}.] Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.
My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach. --Coleridge.
The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian
noun
1: weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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