Thesaurus: patient

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1. a. Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
2. a. Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
3. a. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
4. a. Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
5. a. Forbearing; long-suffering.
6. n. ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
7. n. A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
8. v. t. To compose, to calm.
9. adj. enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance
10. n. a person who requires medical care
11. n. the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
12. 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. 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. To compose, to calm. [Obs.] "Patient yourself, madam." Shak.