SUFFERER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sufferer mean? 

• SUFFERER (noun)
  The noun SUFFERER has 2 senses:

1. a person suffering from an illness

2. one who suffers for the sake of principle

  Familiarity information: SUFFERER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUFFERER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person suffering from an illness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

diseased person; sick person; sufferer

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

unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sufferer"):

spewer; vomiter (a person who vomits)

valetudinarian (weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health)

syphilitic (a person suffering from syphilis)

rheumatic (a person suffering with rheumatism)

psycho; psychotic; psychotic person (a person afflicted with psychosis)

patient (a person who requires medical care)

mental case; neurotic; psychoneurotic (a person suffering from neurosis)

neurasthenic (a person suffering a nervous breakdown)

narcoleptic (a person who has narcolepsy)

monomaniac (a person suffering from monomania)

manic-depressive (a person afflicted with manic-depressive illness)

lunatic; madman; maniac (an insane person)

lazar; leper (a person afflicted with leprosy)

invalid; shut-in (someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury)

insomniac; sleepless person (someone who cannot sleep)

incurable (a person whose disease is incurable)

bleeder; haemophile; haemophiliac; hemophile; hemophiliac (someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding)

epileptic (a person who has epilepsy)

dyspeptic (a person suffering from indigestion)

diabetic (someone who has diabetes)

depressive (someone suffering psychological depression)

convalescent (a person who is recovering from illness)

consumptive; lunger; tubercular (a person with pulmonary tuberculosis)

bulimic (a person suffering from bulimia)

anorectic; anorexic (a person suffering from anorexia nervosa)

Derivation:

suffer (feel pain or be in pain)

suffer (undergo (as of injuries and illnesses))

suffer (feel physical pain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One who suffers for the sake of principle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

martyr; sufferer

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

victim (an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sufferer"):

shaheed (Arabic term for holy martyrs)

Instance hyponyms:

Tindal; Tindale; Tyndale; William Tindal; William Tindale; William Tyndale (English translator and Protestant martyr; his translation of the Bible into English (which later formed the basis for the King James Version) aroused ecclesiastical opposition; he left England in 1524 and was burned at the stake in Antwerp as a heretic (1494-1536))

Derivation:

suffer (experience (emotional) pain)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Norris, however, as most attached to Maria, was really the greatest sufferer.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Thus the poor sufferer tried to comfort others and herself.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Scientists designed the first test to detect dysphagia, a disorder that prevents sufferers from swallowing while eating, among patients with cognitive problems.

(Scientists designed the first test to detect dysphagia, University of Granada)

He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

More specifically, such compounds could be used for pharmaceutical purposes, acting directly on the skeleton among achondroplasia sufferers.

(Scientists identify bioactive compounds in cacao pods to develop drugs to combat skeletal disorders, University of Granada)

Well, (smiling,) I hope it may be allowed that if compassion has produced exertion and relief to the sufferers, it has done all that is truly important.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at the bedside of the sufferer.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am here obliged to vindicate the reputation of an excellent lady, who was an innocent sufferer upon my account.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I could imagine that our visitor was standing by the bedside and looking down at the sufferer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Unlike some sufferers, he never spoke of his unrequited passion, and would allow no one, not even Mrs. March, to attempt consolation or offer sympathy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)