Standard Lemma guide

inpatient

adj · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: IH1 N P EY2 SH AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of treatment, requiring at least one night's residence in a hospital.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Alternative spelling of impatient.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A patient whose treatment requires at least one night's residence in a hospital; a hospitalized patient.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: government, healthcare

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: outpatient

4

noun

Meaning 4

a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: inmate

Antonyms: outpatient

Broader terms: patient

History

Etymology

From in- (“internal”) + patient.

By surface analysis, in- (“not”) + patient.

Across languages

Translations

24 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Polish: szpitalny — requiring at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Chinese Mandarin: 住院病人 (zhùyuàn bìngrén) — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Finnish: sairaalapotilas — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Finnish: sisäpotilas — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • French: patient hospitalier — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • German: stationärer Patient — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Greek: εσωτερικός ασθενής (esoterikós asthenís) — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Hungarian: fekvőbeteg — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Hungarian: bentfekvő — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Indonesian: pasien rawat inap — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Malay: pesakit dalam — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Polish: pacjent hospitalizowany — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Polish: pacjentka hospitalizowana — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Portuguese: internado — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Russian: стациона́рный больно́й (stacionárnyj bolʹnój) — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Russian: стациона́рный пацие́нт (stacionárnyj paciént) — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Serbo-Croatian: stacionarni pacijent — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Serbo-Croatian: hospitalizirani pacijent — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Spanish: paciente hospitalizado — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Spanish: endopaciente — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Swedish: sluten — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Swedish: inlagd — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Swedish: intagen — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
  • Thai: ผู้ป่วยใน — patient whose treatment needs at least one night's residence in a hospital
Real reading context

inpatient in complete knowledge articles