valetudinary

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian

   Synonymsvaletudinarian

Questions about valetudinary

What does valetudinary mean?

valetudinary means "of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian".

How many syllables are in valetudinary?

valetudinary has 6 syllables and divides as va-le-tu-di-na-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for valetudinary?

Close synonyms include valetudinarian. 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 valetudinary a common word?

valetudinary 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.