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hypochondriac
[ hahy-puh-kon-dree-ak ]
adjective
- Psychiatry.
- relating to, having, or experiencing hypochondria, an excessive preoccupation with or anxiety about one's health:
This biography of the poet paints him as a hypochondriac depressive.
- produced by an excessive preoccupation with or anxiety about one's health:
Hypochondriac feelings overwhelmed her.
- exhibiting excessive worry about one's health:
Her hypochondriac roommate had been convinced that their apartment was killing them with black mold.
- Anatomy, Zoology. of or relating to the hypochondrium.
noun
- Psychiatry. a person experiencing or subject to hypochondria.
- a person who worries or talks excessively about their health.
hypochondriac
/ ˌhaɪpəˈkɒndrɪˌæk /
noun
- a person suffering from hypochondria
adjective
- relating to or suffering from hypochondria
- anatomy of or relating to the hypochondrium
hypochondriac
- A person who constantly believes he or she is ill or about to become ill.
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Derived Forms
- ˌhypochonˈdriacally, adverb
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Other Words From
- hy·po·chon·dri·a·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hypochondriac1
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Example Sentences
One of the storylines of that movie has hypochondriac Woody enduring a cancer scare.
He is a hypochondriac now and would keep a close watch on his heir's health and habits; you may be sure of that.
I've met him; he's a bad-tempered hypochondriac, a cynic at heart, and a man whose word is never doubted.
Many a hypochondriac had laughed immoderately at the ludicrous exercises of Crummles and the infant phenomenon!
Hypochondriacs of any sort are a nuisance both to themselves and other people, but none more so than the spiritual hypochondriac.
He chiefly complained of great straitness and pain in the hypochondriac region, very short breath, swelled legs, want of appetite.
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