SUFFERER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who suffers for the sake of principle

Synonyms:

martyr; sufferer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person suffering from an illness

Synonyms:

diseased person; sick person; sufferer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

Credits

Context examples:

Scientists found schizophrenia sufferers had, on average, four per cent lower levels of glutamate in the anterior cingulate cortex region of the brain.

(Key to Treating Schizophrenia May Be Found in Broccoli, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

To gain a better understanding of light's role, Dr. Rami Burstein of Harvard Medical School and his colleagues evaluated 20 migraine sufferers who were also blind.

(How Light Boosts Migraine Pain, NIH, US)

Nut allergy sufferers are at greater risk of a dangerous reaction if they have not slept well or have taken strenuous exercise.

(Poor Sleep, Lack of Exercise Increase Risk of Nut Allergy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When I entered I found that the sufferer to whose aid I had been summoned had that instant expired.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Rosamond a sufferer, a labourer, a female apostle?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You must feel it; and the usual satisfaction of preaching patience to a sufferer is denied me, because you have always so much.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A disorder characterized by persistent or recurrent episodes of feeling detached from one's self (either one's body or one's mental processes), although the sufferer remains aware that this is only a feeling and does not represent reality.

(Depersonalization Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

I must regret that an attack of gout, from which malady I am a constant sufferer, forbids absolutely any travelling on my part for some time to come; but I am happy to say I can send a sufficient substitute, one in whom I have every possible confidence.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

James was the sufferer.