单词 | valetudinaries |
释义 | valetudinaries in British Englishplural noun valetudinarian valetudinarian in British English (ˌvælɪˌtjuːdɪˈnɛərɪən) or valetudinary (ˌvælɪˈtjuːdɪnərɪ) nounWord forms: plural -narians or -naries 1. a person who is or believes himself or herself to be chronically sick 2. a person excessively worried about the state of his or her health; hypochondriac adjective 3. relating to, marked by, or resulting from poor health 4. being a valetudinarian 5. trying to return to a healthy state Derived forms valetudinarianism (ˌvaleˌtudiˈnarianˌism) noun Word origin C18: from Latin valētūdō state of health, from valēre to be well |
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