Sufferer

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sufferer \Suf"fer*er\, n.
     1. 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.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. One who permits or allows.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sufferer
       n 1: a person suffering from an illness [syn: {sick person}, {diseased
            person}]
       2: one who suffers for the sake of principle [syn: {martyr}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "sufferer":
     apoplectic, arthritic, case, consumptive, dyspeptic, epileptic,
     incurable, inpatient, invalid, martyr, object of compassion,
     outpatient, patient, poor devil, prey, rheumatic, shut-in,
     sick person, spastic, terminal case, the sick, valetudinarian,
     victim, wretch