Patient

a.	1.	Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. Patient of severest toil and hardship. - Bp. Fell.
	2.	Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
	3.	Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor. Whatever I have done is due to patient thought. - Sir I. Newton.
	4.	Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed. Not patient to expect the turns of fate. - Prior.
	5.	Forbearing; long-suffering. Be patient toward all men. - 1 Thess. v. 14.
n.	1.	One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient. - Gov. of Tongue.
	2.	A person under medical or surgical treatment; - correlative to physician or nurse. Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever. - Sir P. Sidney. In patient a patient who receives lodging and food, as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary. Out patient one who receives advice and medicine, or treatment, from an infirmary.
v. t.	1.	To compose, to calm.

Noun	1.	patient - a person who requires medical care; "the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly"
	2.	patient - the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause Synonyms: affected role, patient role
Adj.	1.	patient - enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance; "a patient smile"; "was patient with the children"; "an exact and patient scientist"; "please be patient" Antonyms: impatient - restless or short of temper under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism"
	2.	patient - enduring without protest or complaint

To dream that you are a patient, suggests that you are going through a healing process. Alternatively, this dream may be a pun for you to be more patient.Spartan, accepting, accommodating, acquiescent, apoplectic, armed with patience, arthritic, benevolent, bovine, case, charitable, clement, compassionate, compliant, conciliatory, constant, consumptive, continuing, determined, diligent, disciplined, dispassionate, dogged, dull, dyspeptic, easy, easygoing, endurant, enduring, epileptic, even-tempered, faithful, firm, forbearant, forgiving, generous, gentle, guinea pig, humane, immutable, impassive, imperturbable, inalterable, incurable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, inexcitable, inirritable, inpatient, insistent, invalid, invincible, kind, laboratory animal, lasting, lax, lenient, long-suffering, longanimous, loyal, magnanimous, merciful, mild, moderate, never-tiring, obstinate, outpatient, patient as Job, permanent, perseverant, persisting, pertinacious, philosophical, placable, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, rapt, relentless, resolute, resolved, rheumatic, sedulous, self-controlled, self-possessed, shut-in, sick person, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, soft, sparing, spastic, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, stoic, stolid, stubborn, subject, sufferer, tenacious, tender, terminal case, testee, the sick, tireless, tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, understanding, undiscouraged, undisturbable, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflappable, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unirritable, unnervous, unnodding, unpassionate, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unresentful, unrevengeful, unsleeping, unswerving, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive, valetudinarian, weariless

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