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Definition of Sufferer
1. Noun. A person suffering from an illness.
Generic synonyms: Unfortunate, Unfortunate Person
Specialized synonyms: Anorectic, Anorexic, Bulimic, Consumptive, Lunger, Tubercular, Convalescent, Depressive, Diabetic, Dyspeptic, Epileptic, Bleeder, Haemophile, Haemophiliac, Hemophile, Hemophiliac, Incurable, Insomniac, Sleepless Person, Invalid, Shut-in, Lazar, Leper, Lunatic, Madman, Maniac, Manic-depressive, Monomaniac, Narcoleptic, Neurasthenic, Mental Case, Neurotic, Psychoneurotic, Patient, Psycho, Psychotic, Psychotic Person, Rheumatic, Syphilitic, Valetudinarian, Spewer, Vomiter
Derivative terms: Suffer, Suffer, Suffer
2. Noun. One who suffers for the sake of principle.
Specialized synonyms: Shaheed
Generic synonyms: Victim
Specialized synonyms: Tindal, Tindale, Tyndale, William Tindal, William Tindale, William Tyndale
Derivative terms: Martyr, Martyrdom, Martyrize, Suffer
Definition of Sufferer
1. n. One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea.
Definition of Sufferer
1. Noun. One who suffers. ¹
2. Noun. One who is afflicted. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sufferer
1. one that suffers [n -S] - See also: suffers
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sufferer
Literary usage of Sufferer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1875)
"Which form is thus directed to be observed : the sufferer must first apply to
the lord privy-seal, and he shall make out letters of request under the ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1842)
"... that any approach to a touch awakens the sufferer to a sensitiveness which
appears scarcely comprehensible to him whose withers are unwrung. ..."
3. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... notion of any civil rights in the sufferer, but that unusual and shocking
cruelty, even to brute animals, if of a nature offensive to the public eye, ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"... spring ot 1881 my health began to fall, so tbat I became a treat sufferer from
debility, nervousness, and loss of sleep and appetite. ..."
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