hypochondriacal

  • 111Psychopathology —    (as a movement)    Because the term psychpathology springs so readily to the lips, it is difficult to ascertain the priority for its first use. It is mentioned in passing in some of the psychiatric writing of the early nineteenth century. The… …

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  • 112hypochondriac — noun a person who is abnormally anxious about their health. adjective (also hypochondriacal) related to or affected by hypochondria …

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  • 113atrabilious — a. Melancholy, hypochondriacal, hypped, hyppish, dejected, dispirited, depressed, gloomy, sad, sorrowful, blue, desponding, downcast, down hearted, chop fallen, low spirited, cast down, in the blues, in the dumps, with a long face …

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  • 114hipped — a.; (also hippish) (Colloq.) Melancholy, hypochondriacal, blue, dejected, depressed, low spirited, in low spirits …

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  • 115spleeny — a. 1. Angry, fretful, peevish, ill tempered, irritable, spleenish, spleenful, splenetic. 2. Melancholy, hypochondriacal, low spirited …

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  • 116splenetic — a. 1. Irascible, irritable, fretful, peevish, touchy, testy, pettish, waspish, petulant, choleric, snappish, cross. 2. Morose, sullen, sulky, churlish, sour, crabbed. 3. Melancholy, despondent, moping, gloomy, melancholic, hypochondriacal,… …

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  • 117vaporish — a. Splenetic, hypochondriacal, peevish, petulant, humorsome, vapory …

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  • 118hypochondriac — I. n. Seek sorrow, self tormentor, victim of melancholy or hypochondria. II. a. See hypochondriacal …

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  • 119dejected — adj disheartened, dispirited, low spirited, downhearted, downcast, down, Inf. down in the dumps; discouraged, daunted, dismayed, distressed, disappointed, crestfallen, brokenhearted, heartsick, Inf. broken up; unhappy, cheerless, glum, gloomy,… …

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  • 120despondent — adj dejected, depressed, Sl. bummed out, weighed down, burdened, Inf. broken, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal; disheartened, dispirited, low spirited, Brit. hipped, downhearted, downcast, down, Inf. down in the dumps; discouraged, daunted,… …

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