sick person

Questions about sick person

What does sick person mean?

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

What is another word for sick person?

Close synonyms include diseased 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 sick person a common word?

sick 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.