Patient
['peɪʃ(ə)nt] or ['peʃnt]
Definition
(noun.) a person who requires medical care; 'the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly'.
(adj.) enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance; 'a patient smile'; 'was patient with the children'; 'an exact and patient scientist'; 'please be patient' .
Checker: Maryann--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
(a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
(a.) Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
(a.) Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
(a.) Forbearing; long-suffering.
(n.) ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
(n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
(v. t.) To compose, to calm.
Editor: Upton
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Submissive, resigned, uncomplaining, unrepining, passive, long-suffering.[2]. Persevering, persistent, diligent, assiduous, indefatigable, constant.
Typed by Hiram
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Resigned, unrepining, enduring
ANT:Impatient,[See PASSIVE]
Typist: Robbie
Examples
- I was attending a little patient in the college near, said he, and saw it dropped out of his chamber window, and so came to pick it up. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He does not flatter women, but he is patient with them, and he seems to be easy in their presence, and to find their company genial. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There's no patient expected. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I cannot be patient here. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I listened to the patient's breathing, and avoided answering. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- At length he returned; and in reply to an anxious inquiry after his patient; looked very mysterious, and closed the door, carefully. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Thank you, said my patient, but I have felt another man since the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has completed the cure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There are sixty-three pages, and some patient monk has spent months, aye, perhaps years, in making it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They ought to have told me, and not let me go blundering and scolding, when I should have been more kind and patient than ever. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A very few lines from Edmund shewed her the patient and the sickroom in a juster and stronger light than all Lady Bertram's sheets of paper could do. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Who always received her on his disengaged arm, and detained her, while the patient cherub stood waiting to be finished. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In tending her patient, and in thinking of the wonderful escapes of the day before, her second day passed away not too slowly with Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He is practising at a German bath, and has married a rich patient. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She hung over the patient in agony, which was not mitigated when her thoughts wandered towards her babes, for whom she feared infection. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Our Roman Ferguson is the most patient, unsuspecting, long-suffering subject we have had yet. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Or, if they flop, their floppings goes in favour of more patients, and how can you rightly have one without t'other? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- That would be good discipline, you know, for a young doctor who has to please his patients in Middlemarch. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My page who admits patients is a new boy and by no means quick. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- When I came back I resolved to settle in London; to which Mr. Bates, my master, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended to several patients. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I get chiefly patients who can't pay me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His skill was relied on by many paying patients, but he always regarded himself as a failure: he had not done what he once meant to do. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A medical man should be responsible for the quality of the drugs consumed by his patients. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They will unless there are more patients. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Doctor Manette received such patients here as his old reputation, and its revival in the floating whispers of his story, brought him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- That is clearly the best thing both for the patients and for the State. Plato. The Republic.
- Later he invent ed simple pendulum devices for timing the pulse of patients, and even made some advances in applying his discovery in the construction of pendulum clocks. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- You recognize, I hope; the existence of spiritual interests in your patients? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There must be some more patients or they'll send us away. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Every doctor in large practice finds himself, every now and then, obliged to deceive his patients, as Mr. Candy deceived you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The patients, a s shown in the accompanying illustration, are suffering pain, and, according to the inscription, one cries out, Do this [and] let me go, and the other, Don't hurt me so! Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Edited by Daniel