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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, yieldingpatient
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, victimAssociated concepts: doctor-patient privilege
See also: charitable, lenient, peaceable, persistent, pertinacious, placid, resigned, sedulous, steadfast, stoical