Usually means: Recovering from illness or injury.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word Convalescent:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. convalescent: Merriam-Webster
  2. convalescent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. convalescent: Collins English Dictionary
  4. convalescent: Vocabulary.com
  5. Convalescent, convalescent: Wordnik
  6. convalescent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. convalescent: Wiktionary
  8. convalescent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. convalescent: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. convalescent: Dictionary.com
  11. convalescent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Convalescent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Convalescent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. convalescent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. convalescent: Rhymezone
  16. Convalescent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. convalescent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. convalescent: FreeDictionary.org
  19. convalescent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. convalescent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. convalescent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convalescent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convalescent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. convalescent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. convalescent: Medical dictionary

(Note: See convalesce as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (convalescent)

▸ adjective:  recovering one's health and strength after a period of illness
▸ adjective:  of convalescence or convalescents
▸ noun:  A person recovering from illness.

Similar:
recovering, ill, sick, reconvalescent, sanative, restorative, restoratory, restored, curative, resuscitative, more...

Opposite:
ailing, sick, unwell, bedridden, infirm

Types:
rehabilitation, restoration, recovery, recuperation, healing, therapy, convalescence, rest, more...

Phrases:
convalescent home, convalescent serum, convalescent hospitals, convalescent carrier, more...

Adjectives:
patient, young, little, poor, feeble, unabashed, old, quiet, human, last, only

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Similar:
recovering, ill, sick, reconvalescent, sanative, restorative, restoratory, restored, curative, resuscitative, more...

Opposite:
ailing, sick, unwell, bedridden, infirm

Types:
rehabilitation, restoration, recovery, recuperation, healing, therapy, convalescence, rest, more...

Phrases:
convalescent home, convalescent serum, convalescent hospitals, convalescent carrier, more...

Adjectives:
patient, young, little, poor, feeble, unabashed, old, quiet, human, last, only

Colors:
    pale blue,     soft lavender,     light pink,     mint green,     pastel yellow, more...



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