PATIENT

patient

(adjective) 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”

patient

(noun) a person who requires medical care; “the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

patient (comparative patienter or more patient, superlative patientest or most patient)

(of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.

Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.

(obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.

Synonyms

• composed

Antonyms

• impatient

• antsy

• macrophobic

Noun

patient (plural patients)

A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.

(linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.

One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.

Antonyms

• (linguistics, grammar): agent

Anagrams

• antipet

Source: Wiktionary

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Pa"tient, a. Etym: [F., fr. L. patiens, -entis, p.pr. of pati to suffer. Cf. Pathos, Passion.]

1. Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell.

2. Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long- suffering.

3. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor. Whatever I have done is due to patient thought. Sir I. Newton.

4. Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed. Not patient to expect the turns of fate. Prior.

5. Forbearing; long-suffering. Be patient toward all men. 1 Thess. v. 14.

Pa"tient, n.

1. ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that often involves the agent and the patient. Gov. of Tongue.

2. A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse. Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever. Sir P. Sidney. In patient, a patient who receives lodging and food, as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary.

– Out patient, one who receives advice and medicine, or treatment, from an infirmary.

Pa"tient, v. t.

Definition: To compose, to calm. [Obs.] "Patient yourself, madam." Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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