valetudinarian

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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.

Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm

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

{n} one of a sickly constitution
A person who is obsessed with some ailment
{a} sickly, weakly, infirm, crazy
weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian
{i} one who worries chronically about his health; invalid
A person in poor health or sickly, expecially one who is constantly obsessed with their state of health
of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian
{s} chronically worrying about one's health; constantly in poor health
A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health
weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health
valetudinous
A valetudinarian
valetudinary
valetudinarians
plural of valetudinarian
valetudinarian
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