sufferernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈsʌf.ər.ər/us/ˈsʌf.ɚ.ɚ/C2 a person who has or often gets a particular illness:
Almost 50 percent of cancer sufferers are treated successfully.
A new drug may give new hope to thousands of hay-fever sufferers.
More examples
- an asthma sufferer
- This new cancer treatment offers hope to many sufferers.
- It has proved to be a wonder drug for sufferers of epilepsy, reducing seizures by up to 80%.
- Cancer sufferers no longer face certain death as they once did.
- The pollen count is high today, which is bad news for hay fever sufferers.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Medical treatment: people who receive medical treatment
- admission
- asthmatic
- case
- casualty
- convalescent
- day patient
- donor
- dying
- epileptic
- geriatric
- injured
- inpatient
- invalid 1
- outpatient
- patient
- PWA
- sick
- under
- victim
- wounded