单词 | hypochondriac |
释义 | hypochondriac (once / 13840 pages) nadj If you obsess about your health and imagine you have the symptoms of a disease (or diseases), you may well be a hypochondriac and should seek therapy. The original Greek hypochondriakos referred to the region of the abdomen, an area that ancient doctors believed to be the seat of misery or melancholia. It stands to reason, then, that hypochondriacs are usually unhappy, simply because they always imagine they're sick. WORD FAMILYhypochondriac: hypochondriacally, hypochondriacs+/hypochondria: hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, hypochondrias USAGE EXAMPLESWill does not explain why only “political hypochondriacs” think that the winner of the most votes should prevail. Washington Post(Dec 25, 2016) Political hypochondriacs say, with more indignation than precision, that the nation’s 58th presidential election was the fifth in which the winner lost the popular vote. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) By 1936, Universal was virtually ruined, and Junior’s career ended at 28, though he was to survive another 43 wretchedly unfulfilled and chronically hypochondriac years. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) 1n a patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments Hyper patient a person who requires medical care 2adj suffering from hypochondria Syn hypochondriacal neurotic, psychoneurotic affected with emotional disorder |
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