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Word Meanings - PATIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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-

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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.

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  • UNRESISTANCE
    Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
  • ENDURANT
    Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
  • INDIFFERENTLY
    In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
  • PASSIVE FLIGHT
    Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
  • NEGATIVENESS; NEGATIVITY
    The quality or state of being negative.
  • UNRESISTED
    1. Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley. 2. Resistless; as, unresisted fate. Pope.
  • PHLEGMATICALLY
    In a phlegmatic manner.
  • ENDUREMENT
    Endurance. South.
  • INERTIA
    That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
  • PATIENTLY
    In a patient manner. Cowper.
  • PHLEGMATICLY
    Phlegmatically.
  • APATHETICALLY
    In an apathetic manner.
  • UNQUESTIONABLE
    1. Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title. 2. Not inviting questions or conversation. Shak. -- Un*ques"tion*a*bly, adv.
  • UNQUESTIONED
    1. Not called in question; not doubted. 2. Not interrogated; having no questions asked; not examined or examined into. Shak. She muttering prayers, as holy rites she meant, Through the divided crowd unquestioned went. Dryden. 3. Indisputable; not
  • PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE
    One unprovided with motive power.
  • INERTLY
    Without activity; sluggishly. Pope.
  • INACTIVE
    Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive
  • NEGATIVELY
    1. In a negative manner; with or by denial. "He answered negatively." Boyle. 2. In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively. negatively, by showing wherein it does not consist, and positively, by
  • INACTIVELY
    In an inactive manner. Locke.
  • PHLEGMATIC
    1. Watery. "Aqueous and phlegmatic." Sir I. Newton. 2. Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution. Harvey. 3. Generating or causing phlegm. "Cold and phlegmatic habitations." Sir T. Browne. 4. Not easily excited to
  • COMPATIENT
    Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
  • OVERPATIENT
    Patient to excess.
  • OMNIPATIENT
    Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle.
  • OUT-PATIENT
    A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
  • NEGATIVE
    Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. (more info) 1. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing
  • IMPASSIVE
    Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
  • ACQUIESCENTLY
    In an acquiescent manner.

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