Valetudinarian
English Meaning
Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.
- A sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health: "She affected to be spunky about her ailments and afflictions, but she was in fact an utterly self-centered valetudinarian” ( Louis Auchincloss).
- Chronically ailing; sickly.
- Constantly and morbidly concerned with one's health.