Patient (IPA: /ˈpeɪʃənt/)
| Patient (a.) |
Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. |
| Patient (a.) |
Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering. |
| Patient (a.) |
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor. |
| Patient (a.) |
Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed. |
| Patient (a.) |
Forbearing; long-suffering. |
| Patient (n.) |
ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. |
| Patient (n.) |
A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse. |
| Patient (v. t.) |
To compose, to calm. |
| Patient |
Grammar: participant of a situation upon whom an action is carried out or the thematic relation such a participant has with an action. Sometimes, " theme " and " patient " are used to mean the same thing |
| Patient |
Person who takes a medical treatment or is subject of a case study |
| Patient |
Album by Bluebottle Kiss |
| Patient |
Memoir by musician Ben Watt |
| Patient |
Family name |
| Patient Synonyms |
Tolerant, Longanimous, Patient Of, Enduring, Forbearing, Diligent, Unhurried, Persevering, Uncomplaining, Long-suffering |
| Patient Synonyms |
Uncomplaining |
| Patient Synonyms |
Affected Role, Patient Role |
| Patient (Last Name / Surname) |
Patient is the #39,419 most common last name / surname from the 2010 United States Census. The census reported that 558 people had that surname. |
| Spanish Translation |
Patient in Spanish is Paciente |
| Tagalog Translation |
Patient in Tagalog is Mapagtiis |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Anon, as patient as the female dove, When that her golden couplets are disclosed, His silence will sit drooping." - Doves |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Beware the fury of a patient man." - Anger |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "I am a patient man." - Deus Ex |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold." - Work |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table." - T. S. Eliot |
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