patient role

1. 1.

   the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

   Synonymsaffected rolepatient

   Broadersemantic role

Questions about patient role

What does patient role mean?

patient role means "the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause".

What is another word for patient role?

Close synonyms include affected role, patient. 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.