Crossword clues for hypochondriac
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypochondriac \Hy`po*chon"dri*ac\, n. A person affected with hypochondria.
He had become an incurable hypochondriac.
--Macaulay.
Hypochondriac \Hy`po*chon"dri*ac\, a. [Gr. ? affocated in the hypochondrium: cf. F. hypocondriaque, formerly spelt hypochondriaque.]
Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.
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Affected, characterized, or produced, by hypochondriasis.
Hypochondriac region (Anat.), a region on either side of the abdomen beneath the cartilages of the false ribs, beside the epigastric, and above the lumbar, region.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "pertaining to the hypochondria," also "afflicted with melancholy," from French hypocondriaque (16c.), from Medieval Latin hypochondriacus, from Greek hypokhondriakos "pertaining to the upper abdomen," from hypokhondria (see hypochondria). The noun is from 1630s, "melancholy person;" in the modern sense from 1888.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Related to, or affected by hypochondria 2 Related to, or located in the hypochondrium. n. A person affected with hypochondria.
WordNet
adj. suffering from hypochondria [syn: hypochondriacal]
n. a patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments
Usage examples of "hypochondriac".
Planting new male mulberry trees is prohibited by law because their pollen is a powerful allergen, and Tucson gains profit and riches as a refuge for allergy sufferers and hypochondriacs.
Given the ends of photojournalism, Ressler is not surprised to catch the gist: the boy is young, single, romantically eccentric, a crank hypochondriac, never seen without his panoply of pills and jars of spring water.
He reassured his surgical hypochondriacs that there was nothing abnormal about having a fifth, sixth, or seventh blepharoplasty in as many years.
He was a tiny man, under five feet, and though suffering the continuing ills of the hypochondriac he had translated all of Plato and become a living dictionary of ancient philosophies by translating the body of Egyptian wisdom before devouring the work of the sages from Aristotle through the Alexandrians, Confucianists, Zoroastrians.
Without regard for his own dignity, he exhibits himself as humiliated, or drunken, or hypochondriac, or inquisitive, or resorting to petty subterfuge--anything for the accomplishment of his one main purpose.
Our libraries are crammed with books written by spiritual hypochondriacs, who inspected all their moral secretions a dozen times a day.
Mertis Bainbridge was a hypochondriac, and a general com-plainer to boot.
His sister Ruth, an advanced hypochondriac, with the persistence of a missionary, continually pressed upon him strange boluses, pills and draughts.
Another plaque commemorated the stateroom in which Del Dellasandro wrote Hypochondriacs Get Sick Too.
Mr Waters finished his description, returned his last example of Barbados leg to its folder, and said, 'I am sure you have observed that most medical men are hypochondriacs, Dr Maturin.
I wish I didnt have to keep nine fucking doctors on retainer cause Im such a fucking hypochondriac, and I wish I didnt have the chutzpah--which is the same as audacity to you goyim--to try to break the worlds record for getting blow jobs, cause I think Ive reached the point where all that suction is doing my prostate more harm than good.
The hypochondriac thinks he has illnesses, a special case of Class 5 above.
In fact, everybody thought she was a malade imaginaire-a hypochondriac.
I think those day visions were not dark: there was a pleasurable illumination in your eye occasionally, a soft excitement in your aspect, which told of no bitter, bilious, hypochondriac brooding: your look revealed rather the sweet musings of youth when its spirit follows on willing wings the flight of Hope up and on to an ideal heaven.