patient

adjective

Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance with calmness.

adjective

Marked by or exhibiting calm endurance of pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance.

adjective

Tolerant; understanding.

adjective

Persevering; constant.

adjective

Capable of calmly awaiting an outcome or result; not hasty or impulsive.

adjective

Capable of bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance.

noun

One who receives medical attention, care, or treatment.

noun

A noun or noun phrase identifying one that is acted upon or undergoes an action.

noun

One who suffers.

Enduring; physically able to support or endure; having such a bodily constitution as enables one to endure or to be proof against: followed by of before the thing endured: as, patient of labor or pain; patient of heat or cold.