Dictionary Entry
patient
patient is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective, noun, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
- 2adjective
Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
- 3adjective
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
- 4adjective
Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
- 5adjective
Forbearing; long-suffering.
- 6noun
ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
- 7noun
A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
- 8transitive verb
To compose, to calm.
- 9noun
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
- 10noun
a person who requires medical care
"the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly"
- 11adjective
enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance
"a patient smile"
"was patient with the children"
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