diseased person

1. 1.

   a person suffering from an illness

   Synonymssick personsufferer

   Broaderunfortunate

   Narroweranorexicbulimicconsumptiveconvalescentdepressivediabeticdyspepticepileptichemophiliacincurable

Questions about diseased person

What does diseased person mean?

diseased person means "a person suffering from an illness".

What is another word for diseased person?

Close synonyms include sick person, sufferer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diseased person a common word?

diseased person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.