Words that rhyme with patient

• abasement 0
  n 1: a low or downcast state; "each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement"- H.L.Menchken [syn: abasement, degradation, abjection] 2: depriving one of self-esteem [syn: humiliation, abasement]
• absent 0
  adj 1: not being in a specified place [ant: present] 2: nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking" [syn: lacking, absent, missing, wanting] 3: lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" [syn: absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty] v 1: go away or leave; "He absented himself" [syn: absent, remove]
• accent 0
  n 1: distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern" [syn: accent, speech pattern] 2: special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents" [syn: emphasis, accent] 3: the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy" [syn: dialect, idiom, accent] 4: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable" [syn: stress, emphasis, accent] 5: a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation [syn: accent, accent mark] v 1: to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet" [syn: stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate] 2: put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word" [syn: stress, accent, accentuate]
• achievement 0
  n 1: the action of accomplishing something [syn: accomplishment, achievement]
• adjacent 0
  adj 1: nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; "had adjacent rooms"; "in the next room"; "the person sitting next to me"; "our rooms were side by side" [syn: adjacent, next, side by side(p)] 2: having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; "Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring cities" [syn: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring(a)] 3: near or close to but not necessarily touching; "lands adjacent to the mountains"; "New York and adjacent cities"
• advertisement 0
  n 1: a public promotion of some product or service [syn: ad, advertisement, advertizement, advertising, advertizing, advert]
• agent 0
  n 1: an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect; "their research uncovered new disease agents" 2: a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations 3: a substance that exerts some force or effect 4: a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission [syn: agent, factor, broker] 5: any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau [syn: agent, federal agent] 6: the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause [syn: agentive role, agent]
• amazement 0
  n 1: the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising; "he looked at me in astonishment" [syn: astonishment, amazement]
• ancient 0
  adj 1: belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; "ancient history"; "ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"; "ancient Greece" 2: very old; "an ancient mariner" n 1: a very old person [syn: ancient, antediluvian] 2: a person who lived in ancient times
• anticonvulsant 0
  n 1: a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) [syn: anticonvulsant, anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic, antiepileptic drug]
• arrangement 0
  n 1: the thing arranged or agreed to; "they made arrangements to meet in Chicago" [syn: agreement, arrangement] 2: an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging; "a flower arrangement" 3: an organized structure for arranging or classifying; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"; "he tried to understand their system of classification" [syn: arrangement, organization, organisation, system] 4: the spatial property of the way in which something is placed; "the arrangement of the furniture"; "the placement of the chairs" [syn: placement, arrangement] 5: a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments [syn: musical arrangement, arrangement] 6: the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music [syn: arrangement, arranging, transcription]
• assessment 0
  n 1: the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth [syn: appraisal, assessment] 2: an amount determined as payable; "the assessment for repairs outraged the club's membership" 3: the market value set on assets 4: the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants" [syn: judgment, judgement, assessment]
• astonishment 0
  n 1: the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising; "he looked at me in astonishment" [syn: astonishment, amazement]
• basement 0
  n 1: the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage [syn: basement, cellar] 2: the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture
• beneficent 0
  adj 1: doing or producing good; "the most beneficent regime in history" [ant: maleficent] 2: generous in assistance to the poor; "a benevolent contributor"; "eleemosynary relief"; "philanthropic contributions" [syn: beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic]
• bereavement 0
  n 1: state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one [syn: mourning, bereavement]
• casement 0
  n 1: a window sash that is hinged (usually on one side)
• cent 0
  n 1: a fractional monetary unit of several countries 2: a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit [syn: penny, cent, centime]
• coefficient 0
  n 1: a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic
• complaisant 0
  adj 1: showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others; "to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover"; "the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave" [syn: complaisant, obliging]
• concupiscent 0
  adj 1: vigorously passionate [syn: lustful, lusty, concupiscent]
• consentient 0
  adj 1: in complete agreement; "a unanimous decision" [syn: consentaneous, consentient, unanimous]
• conversant 0
  adj 1: (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly; "conversant with business trends"; "familiar with the complex machinery"; "he was familiar with those roads" [syn: conversant(p), familiar(p)]
• corposant 0
  n 1: an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere [syn: corona discharge, corona, corposant, St. Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's light, Saint Ulmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light, electric glow]
• couchant 0
  adj 1: lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward
• debasement 0
  n 1: being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating [syn: adulteration, debasement] 2: changing to a lower state (a less respected state) [syn: degradation, debasement]
• defacement 0
  n 1: the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something; "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape" [syn: defacement, disfigurement, disfiguration]
• deficient 0
  adj 1: inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting" [syn: deficient, lacking(p), wanting(p)] 2: of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds" [syn: insufficient, deficient] [ant: sufficient] 3: falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing" [syn: deficient, inferior, substandard]
• demulcent 0
  adj 1: having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin [syn: demulcent, emollient, salving, softening] n 1: a medication (in the form of an oil or salve etc.) that soothes inflamed or injured skin
• displacement 0
  n 1: act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics [syn: supplanting, displacement] 2: an event in which something is displaced without rotation [syn: shift, displacement] 3: the act of uniform movement [syn: translation, displacement] 4: (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound [syn: displacement, displacement reaction] 5: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one 6: to move something from its natural environment [syn: displacement, deracination] 7: act of removing from office or employment
• dissentient 0
  adj 1: (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England [syn: dissentient, recusant] 2: disagreeing, especially with a majority [syn: dissentient, dissenting(a), dissident]
• divorcement 0
  n 1: the legal dissolution of a marriage [syn: divorce, divorcement]
• docent 0
  n 1: a teacher at some universities
• document 0
  n 1: writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) [syn: document, written document, papers] 2: anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks 3: a written account of ownership or obligation 4: (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters [syn: text file, document] v 1: record in detail; "The parents documented every step of their child's development" 2: support or supply with references; "Can you document your claims?"
• efficient 0
  adj 1: being effective without wasting time or effort or expense; "an efficient production manager"; "efficient engines save gas" [ant: inefficient] 2: able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively; "people who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons..."-G.B.Shaw; "effective personnel"; "an efficient secretary"; "the efficient cause of the revolution" [syn: effective, efficient]
• emplacement 0
  n 1: military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon 2: the act of putting something in a certain place [syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement]
• encasement 0
  n 1: the act of enclosing something in a case [syn: encasement, incasement]
• enslavement 0
  n 1: the state of being a slave; "So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity"--Shakespeare [syn: enslavement, captivity] 2: the act of making slaves of your captives
• harassment 0
  n 1: a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors" [syn: harassment, torment] 2: the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism [syn: harassment, molestation]
• impatient 0
  adj 1: restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism" [ant: patient] 2: (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness; "impatient to begin"; "raring to go" [syn: impatient(p), raring(p)]
• inefficient 0
  adj 1: not producing desired results; wasteful; "an inefficient campaign against drugs"; "outdated and inefficient design and methods" [ant: efficient] 2: lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate; "an ineffective administration"; "inefficient workers" [syn: ineffective, inefficient]
• innocent 0
  adj 1: free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty" [syn: innocent, guiltless, clean-handed] [ant: guilty] 2: lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank" [syn: innocent, innocuous] 3: free from sin [syn: impeccant, innocent, sinless] 4: lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it" [syn: innocent, ingenuous] 5: not knowledgeable about something specified; "American tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted with our customs" [syn: innocent(p), unacquainted(p)] 6: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn: barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent] 7: (used of things) lacking sense or awareness; "fine innocent weather" n 1: a person who lacks knowledge of evil [syn: innocent, inexperienced person]
• insufficient 0
  adj 1: of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds" [syn: insufficient, deficient] [ant: sufficient]
• lucent 0
  adj 1: softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" [syn: aglow(p), lambent, lucent, luminous]
• magnificent 0
  adj 1: characterized by grandeur; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony" [syn: brilliant, glorious, magnificent, splendid]
• maleficent 0
  adj 1: harmful or evil in intent or effect [ant: beneficent]
• malfeasant 0
  n 1: one guilty of malfeasance
• movement 0
  n 1: a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility" [syn: motion, movement, move, motility] 2: the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" [syn: motion, movement, move] 3: a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something [syn: movement, motion] 4: a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front" [syn: movement, social movement, front] 5: a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic" 6: a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort" [syn: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort] 7: an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement" [syn: apparent motion, motion, apparent movement, movement] 8: a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement" [syn: bowel movement, movement, bm] 9: a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right" [syn: drift, trend, movement] 10: the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement" 11: the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel"
• munificent 0
  adj 1: very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain" [syn: lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting]
• omnipresent 0
  adj 1: being present everywhere at once [syn: omnipresent, ubiquitous]
• outpatient 0
  n 1: a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated [ant: inmate, inpatient]
• pavement 0
  n 1: the paved surface of a thoroughfare [syn: pavement, paving] 2: material used to pave an area [syn: paving, pavement, paving material] 3: walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway [syn: sidewalk, pavement]
• peasant 0
  n 1: a country person [syn: peasant, provincial, bucolic] 2: one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers 3: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement [syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tike]
• pheasant 0
  n 1: large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere 2: flesh of a pheasant; usually braised
• placement 0
  n 1: the spatial property of the way in which something is placed; "the arrangement of the furniture"; "the placement of the chairs" [syn: placement, arrangement] 2: contact established between applicants and prospective employees; "the agency provided placement services" 3: the act of putting something in a certain place [syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement]
• pleasant 0
  adj 1: affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings; "we had a pleasant evening together"; "a pleasant scene"; "pleasant sensations" [ant: unpleasant] 2: (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior; "I didn't enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around"
• present 0
  adj 1: temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration; "the present leader"; "articles for present use"; "the present topic"; "the present system"; "present observations" [ant: future, past] 2: being or existing in a specified place; "the murderer is present in this room"; "present at the wedding"; "present at the creation" [ant: absent] n 1: the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech; "that is enough for the present"; "he lives in the present with no thought of tomorrow" [syn: present, nowadays] 2: something presented as a gift; "his tie was a present from his wife" 3: a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking [syn: present, present tense] v 1: give an exhibition of to an interested audience; "She shows her dogs frequently"; "We will demo the new software in Washington" [syn: show, demo, exhibit, present, demonstrate] 2: bring forward and present to the mind; "We presented the arguments to him"; "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason" [syn: present, represent, lay out] 3: perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'" [syn: stage, present, represent] 4: hand over formally [syn: present, submit] 5: introduce; "This poses an interesting question" [syn: present, pose] 6: give, especially as an honor or reward; "bestow honors and prizes at graduation" [syn: award, present] 7: give as a present; make a gift of; "What will you give her for her birthday?" [syn: give, gift, present] 8: deliver (a speech, oration, or idea); "The commencement speaker presented a forceful speech that impressed the students" [syn: deliver, present] 9: cause to come to know personally; "permit me to acquaint you with my son"; "introduce the new neighbors to the community" [syn: introduce, present, acquaint] 10: represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture; "The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting" [syn: portray, present] 11: present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize; "We confronted him with the evidence"; "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions"; "An enormous dilemma faces us" [syn: confront, face, present] 12: formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc. 13: recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position; "When the officers show up, the soldiers have to salute" [syn: salute, present]
• proficient 0
  adj 1: having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching" [syn: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful] 2: of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill; "his technical innovation was his brushwork"; "the technical dazzle of her dancing" [syn: technical, proficient]
• quotient 0
  n 1: the ratio of two quantities to be divided 2: the number obtained by division
• recusant 0
  adj 1: (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England [syn: dissentient, recusant] 2: refusing to submit to authority; "the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate"- Mary W.Williams n 1: someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct [syn: nonconformist, recusant] [ant: conformist]
• relaxant 0
  adj 1: tending to relax or relieve muscular or nervous tension; "a relaxant drug" n 1: a drug that relaxes and relieves tension
• replacement 0
  n 1: the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy" [syn: replacement, replacing] 2: someone who takes the place of another person [syn: surrogate, alternate, replacement] 3: an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood" [syn: substitution, permutation, transposition, replacement, switch] 4: a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another [syn: substitute, replacement] 5: filling again by supplying what has been used up [syn: refilling, replenishment, replacement, renewal] 6: a person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln's successor" [syn: successor, replacement]
• reticent 0
  adj 1: temperamentally disinclined to talk [syn: reticent, untalkative] 2: cool and formal in manner [syn: restrained, reticent, unemotional] 3: reluctant to draw attention to yourself [syn: reticent, self-effacing, retiring]
• sentient 0
  adj 1: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: sentient, animate] [ant: insensate, insentient] 2: consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
• statement 0
  n 1: a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day" 2: a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true" [syn: argument, statement] 3: (music) the presentation of a musical theme; "the initial statement of the sonata" 4: a nonverbal message; "a Cadillac makes a statement about who you are"; "his tantrums are a statement of his need for attention" 5: the act of affirming or asserting or stating something [syn: affirmation, assertion, statement] 6: (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program [syn: instruction, command, statement, program line] 7: a document showing credits and debits [syn: statement, financial statement]
• sufficient 0
  adj 1: of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant; "sufficient food" [ant: deficient, insufficient]
• translucent 0
  adj 1: allowing light to pass through diffusely; "translucent amber"; "semitransparent curtains at the windows" [syn: translucent, semitransparent]
• unpleasant 0
  adj 1: disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors" [ant: pleasant]
• versant 0
  n 1: the side or slope of a mountain; "conifer forests cover the eastern versant" [syn: mountainside, versant]
• wisent 0
  n 1: European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison [syn: wisent, aurochs, Bison bonasus]
• noctilucent 0
  adj 1: shining or glowing by night; "the noctilucent eyes of a cat"
• assentient 0
  adj 1: expressing agreement or consent; "an assenting nod"
• bezant 0
  n 1: a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages [syn: bezant, bezzant, byzant, solidus]
• cognizant 0
  adj 1: (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception; "was aware of his opponent's hostility"; "became aware of her surroundings"; "aware that he had exceeded the speed limit" [syn: aware(p), cognizant, cognisant] [ant: incognizant, unaware]
• negotiant 0
  n 1: someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) [syn: negotiator, negotiant, treater]
• stuyvesant 0
  n 1: the last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England (1592-1672) [syn: Stuyvesant, Peter Stuyvesant, Petrus Stuyvesant]
• incognizant 0
  adj 1: (often followed by `of') not aware; "seemed unaware of the scrutiny"; "unaware of the danger they were in"; "unaware of the newborn hope"; "the most unaware person I've known" [syn: unaware, incognizant] [ant: aware(p), cognisant, cognizant]
• dispersant 0
• doesn't 0
• hasn't 0
• isn't 0
• subbasement 0
• wasn't 0
• went 0
• liquefacient 0
• tumefacient 0
• relucent 0
• retracement 0
• outplacement 0
• convulsant 0
• ushant 0
• vincent 0
• recognizant 0

See also patient definition and patient synonyms