valetudinarian

Synonyymisanakirja

valetudinarian

sairas henkilö, sairas ihminen, kärsijä, sairaalloinen henkilö.

Rimmaavat sanat

valetudinarian rimmaa näiden kanssa:

liian, ainian, pian, morsian...

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Englannin sanakirja

valetudinarian (englanti > suomi)

1. sairaalloinen

valetudinarian englanniksi

1. sickly, infirm, of ailing health

The valetudinarian habit of discussing his health had grown on Rose... -- Florence Anne Sellar MacCunn, Sir Walter Scott's Friends, 1910, p. 234

2. Macaulay

The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue.

3. being overly worried about one's health

4. A person in poor health or sickly, especially one who is constantly obsessed with their state of health

The most uninformed mind, with a healthy body, is happier than the wisest valetudinarian. -- Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1904), p. 168.

5. 1950, (w), (w)

Are you a mere valetudinarian, my dear Ladyship, or some prolific mendicant whose bewitched offspring she hopes I can return to human shape?

She affected to be spunky about her ailments and afflictions, but she was in fact an utterly self-centered valetudinarian (Louis Auchincloss) The American Heritage Dictionary

The cuisine, of course, would not be such as would raise water bubbles in the mouth of a valetudinarian; the carniverous propensity will mostly be gratified by steak which, when cut, will resemble the Mudhook Yacht Club burgee of rouge et noir; and savory soups and luscious salmon will be luxuries only obtainable in "cannister" form. -- Dixon Kemp, A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing (4th Ed.), 1884.

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