hypochondriac
Example Sentences
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She’s this little hypochondriac, I mean, but it makes sense.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025
Doctors “called me a hypochondriac and said it was just anxiety and depression,” said Hannah Powell, a 26-year-old Utah woman who went undiagnosed for five years.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023
Danny is agoraphobic, socially anxious, obsessive, something of a hypochondriac and nominally a journalist, that most nominal of television professions.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023
The novel follows a young English woman who takes her hypochondriac mother to a clinic in Spain in search of a cure.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023
He was also—perhaps as a result—something of a hypochondriac.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
