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patient adjective acquiescent, agreeable, assiduous, calm, compliant, composed, constant, continuing, decided, determined, diligent, docile, dogged, easygoing, enduring, firm, forbearing, forgiving, hard working, imperturbable, indefatigable, indulgent, lamblike, levelheaded, long-suffering, longanimous, meek, mild, nonresisting, pacific, passive, peaceable, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, philosophic, placid, pliant, plodding, quiescent, quiet, quiitly persevering, reconciled, relentless, resigned, resolute, resolved, restrained, sedulous, self-controlled, serene, steadfast, steady, stoic, stoical, submissive, sympathetic, tenacious, tolerans, tolerant, tractable, tranquil, unceasing, unchangeable, uncomplaining, uncompromising, undaunted, understanding, undeviating, undiscouraged, undisturbed, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unmurmuring, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unresisting, unshaken, unswerving, untiring, unwearied, unwearying, unyielding, yielding

patient noun aeger, aegrotus, case, convalescent, connalescent case, hospital case, hospitalized person, ill individdal, inmate, invalid, medical case, one seeking cure, one seeking relief, one undergoing therapy, one undergoing treatment, shut-in, sick individual, sick person, sickling, victim
Associated concepts: doctor-patient privilege

See also: charitable, lenient, peaceable, persistent, pertinacious, placid, resigned, sedulous, steadfast, stoical

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