valetudinarian
valetudinarian is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 38 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agree
- air
- assimilate
- benign
- bracing
- climate
- eudiometer
- fine
- for
- good
- harmless
- health
- healthful
- healthiness
- healthy
- hygeian
- hygiene
- hygienic
- innocent
- innocuous
- innoxious
- nutritious
- reinstate
- remedial
- restorative
- salubrious
- salubrity
- salutary
- salutiferous
- sanative
- sanitarian
- sanitarium
- sanitary
- tonic
- useful
- valetudinarianism
- wholesome
- with
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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