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patient

noun

1 patient

A person who requires medical care.

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more

Polish: pacjent

2 patient

The semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause.

synonyms: affected role, patient role.

adjective

1 patient

Enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance.

Roget 826: inexcitable, unexcitable; imperturbable; unsusceptible etc. (insensible) 823; unpassionate, dispassionate; cold-blooded, irritable; enduring etc. ... show more

Polish: cierpliwy, wytrwaƂy


Moby thesaurus: Spartan, accepting, accommodating, acquiescent, apoplectic, armed with patience, arthritic, assiduous, benevolent, bovine, case, charitable, clement, compassionate, compliant, conciliatory, constant, consumptive, continuing, determined ... show more.

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