HYPOCHONDRIAC Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

as in complainer

a person who is often or always worried about being ill My brother is a real hypochondriac. Every time he reads about some new disease, he thinks he has it.

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adjective

as in hypochondriacal

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Noun

Read the full Virgo Daily Horoscope Libra (September 23 - October 22) Releasing your inner hypochondriac? —

USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024 The hypochondriacs died about five years younger on average than those without hypochondriasis. —

Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023

Adjective

Interviews with two of Clemente’s sons as well as his late wife Vera capture a man who was loving, dedicated and just a bit eccentric — a fight almost breaks out between two talking heads over whether or not Clemente was a hypochondriac — in a purely human way. —

Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024 Danny is agoraphobic, socially anxious, obsessive, something of a hypochondriac and nominally a journalist, that most nominal of television professions. —

Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for hypochondriac