HYPOCHONDRIAC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypochondriac mean? 

• HYPOCHONDRIAC (noun)
  The noun HYPOCHONDRIAC has 1 sense:

1. a patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments

  Familiarity information: HYPOCHONDRIAC used as a noun is very rare.

• HYPOCHONDRIAC (adjective)
  The adjective HYPOCHONDRIAC has 1 sense:

1. suffering from hypochondria

  Familiarity information: HYPOCHONDRIAC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPOCHONDRIAC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("hypochondriac" is a kind of...):

patient (a person who requires medical care)

• HYPOCHONDRIAC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suffering from hypochondria

Synonyms:

hypochondriac; hypochondriacal

Similar:

neurotic; psychoneurotic (affected with emotional disorder)

 Context examples 

A mixed exocrine and endocrine gland situated transversely across the posterior abdominal wall in the epigastric and hypochondriac regions.

(Murine Pancreas, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

"I wish he would come! I wish he would come!" I exclaimed, seized with hypochondriac foreboding.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

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.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)