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patient | casually |

As a noun patient

is patient, someone who receives therapeutic treatment.

As an adverb casually is

in a casual manner.

patient

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Content to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
    • Be patient : your friends will arrive in a few hours.
  • Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
    • patient endeavour
  • * Sir Isaac Newton
    • Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.
  • (obsolete) Physically able to suffer or bear.
  • * Bishop Fell
    • patient of severest toil and hardship

    Synonyms

    * composed

    Antonyms

    * impatient * antsy

    Derived terms

    * patiently

    Related terms

    * passion * passionate * passive * passivity * patience

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
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  • (linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
  • One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
  • * Gov. of Tongue
    • Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that often involves the agent and the patient .

    Antonyms

    * agent

    Derived terms

    * inpatient * outpatient * patient role * patient of something

    See also

    * -end

    External links

    * *

    Anagrams

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    casually

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a casual manner.
  • *
  • *:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day.A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually .
  • *{{quote-book, year=1928, author= Lawrence R. Bourne
    • , title= Well Tackled!, chapter=7 , passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}

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