SICK PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sick person mean? 

• SICK PERSON (noun)
  The noun SICK PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person suffering from an illness

  Familiarity information: SICK PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SICK PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person suffering from an illness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

diseased person; sick person; sufferer

Hypernyms ("sick person" is a kind of...):

unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sick person"):

lazar; leper (a person afflicted with leprosy)

spewer; vomiter (a person who vomits)

valetudinarian (weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health)

syphilitic (a person suffering from syphilis)

rheumatic (a person suffering with rheumatism)

psycho; psychotic; psychotic person (a person afflicted with psychosis)

patient (a person who requires medical care)

mental case; neurotic; psychoneurotic (a person suffering from neurosis)

neurasthenic (a person suffering a nervous breakdown)

narcoleptic (a person who has narcolepsy)

monomaniac (a person suffering from monomania)

manic-depressive (a person afflicted with manic-depressive illness)

lunatic; madman; maniac (an insane person)

anorectic; anorexic (a person suffering from anorexia nervosa)

invalid; shut-in (someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury)

insomniac; sleepless person (someone who cannot sleep)

incurable (a person whose disease is incurable)

bleeder; haemophile; haemophiliac; hemophile; hemophiliac (someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding)

epileptic (a person who has epilepsy)

dyspeptic (a person suffering from indigestion)

diabetic (someone who has diabetes)

depressive (someone suffering psychological depression)

convalescent (a person who is recovering from illness)

consumptive; lunger; tubercular (a person with pulmonary tuberculosis)

bulimic (a person suffering from bulimia)

 Context examples 

Life was to him like strong, white light that hurts the tired eyes of a sick person.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Cheerful along with me; retired when others is by; fond of going any distance fur to teach a child, or fur to tend a sick person, or fur to do some kindness tow'rds a young girl's wedding (and she's done a many, but has never seen one); fondly loving of her uncle; patient; liked by young and old; sowt out by all that has any trouble.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)