How do you use Hypochondriac in a sentence? See 8 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like hypochondriacal or neurotic, plus the exact meaning.
Hypochondriac meaning
- Related to, or affected by hypochondria.
- Related to, or located in the hypochondrium.
Synonyms of Hypochondriac
Using Hypochondriac
- The main meaning on this page is: Related to, or affected by hypochondria. | Related to, or located in the hypochondrium.
- Useful related words include: hypochondriacal, neurotic, psychoneurotic, patient.
Context around Hypochondriac
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hypochondriac
- In this selection, "hypochondriac" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, shy, raging, functioning, mother, alter and base stand out and add context to how "hypochondriac" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a raging hypochondriac and no and a shy hypochondriac against a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hypochondriac" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hypochondriac
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It pits a shy hypochondriac against a woman who feels she is fast running out of suitors. (17 words)
As a (mostly) functioning hypochondriac, I did what normal Americans do when they want to scare themselves silly. (18 words)
Berg often included caricatures of his own family—headed by his cranky hypochondriac alter ego, Roger Kaputnik—as well as of the Mad editorial staff. (25 words)
For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother (fellow Oscar-nominee Patricia Clarkson) or to the half-sister (newcomer Eliza Scanlen) she barely knows: a beautiful 13 year old with an eerie grip on the town. (39 words)
Henry was a raging hypochondriac, and no wonder: at various times he had contracted smallpox, survived four bouts of malaria, suffered blows to the head while jousting, and was plagued by weeping leg ulcers. (34 words)
He was a hypochondriac who had sinus problems and arthritis and stood for long periods of time to keep his internal organs in place, a tiring activity that he believed contributed to good health. (34 words)
Example sentences (8)
It pits a shy hypochondriac against a woman who feels she is fast running out of suitors.
Sources at Frankland prison in County Durham said Sutcliffe was moaning about his poor health and was 'regarded as a hypochondriac - but with Covid-19 he was monitored more closely'.
Henry was a raging hypochondriac, and no wonder: at various times he had contracted smallpox, survived four bouts of malaria, suffered blows to the head while jousting, and was plagued by weeping leg ulcers.
As a (mostly) functioning hypochondriac, I did what normal Americans do when they want to scare themselves silly.
For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother (fellow Oscar-nominee Patricia Clarkson) or to the half-sister (newcomer Eliza Scanlen) she barely knows: a beautiful 13 year old with an eerie grip on the town.
Berg often included caricatures of his own family—headed by his cranky hypochondriac alter ego, Roger Kaputnik—as well as of the Mad editorial staff.
He was a hypochondriac who had sinus problems and arthritis and stood for long periods of time to keep his internal organs in place, a tiring activity that he believed contributed to good health.
In his capacity as the head of psychiatry for a large Tokyo hospital, Morita began developing his methods while working with sufferers of shinkeishitsu, or anxiety disorders with a hypochondriac base.