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rehabilitant

rehabilitant noun: one who is being or has been rehabilitated.

Noun

rehabilitant (plural rehabilitants)

  1. One who is being or has been rehabilitated.
    • The rehabilitator and the rehabilitant assess each other.1973, James F. Garrett, Edna Simon Levine, Rehabilitation Practices with the Physically Disabled, page 20
    • This does happen for some; for example, peer counseling experience gained as an advanced rehabilitant working with more recently admitted clients/patients has been a stepping stone toward professional training for a number of people.2003, Carolyn L. Vash, Nancy M. Crewe, Psychology of Disability, →ISBN, page 256

Adjective

rehabilitant (comparative more rehabilitant, superlative most rehabilitant)

  1. Undergoing or pertaining to rehabilitation.
    • There are no differences, on any of the twenty factors studied, between the rehabilitant and non-rehabilitant groups.1961, Dissertation Abstracts - Volume 21, Issue 4, page 2980
    • However, some evidence exists on spatial memory in both wild and captive apes and on delayed imitation in rehabilitant apes.2007, Joanna Blake, Routes to Child Language: Evolutionary and Developmental Precursors, →ISBN

Examples of rehabilitant in a sentence

  • Rijksen (1978) observed a rehabilitant aggressively Jabbing with a long stick at a caged clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa).2011, Robert W. Shumaker, Kristina R. Walkup, Benjamin B. Beck, Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals, →ISBN:
  • Recently sensory involvement in relation to pain has been studied asserting the clinical observation of pain ranging from mild to severe in the acute and rehabilitant phases.2011, Doug Elliott, Leanne Aitken, Wendy Chaboyer, ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing, →ISBN, page 468:

Forms of rehabilitant

Noun
pluralrehabilitants
Adjective
comparativemore rehabilitant
superlativemost rehabilitant

Origin of rehabilitant

From rehabilitate + -ant.

Questions about rehabilitant

What does rehabilitant mean?
Rehabilitant means one who is being or has been rehabilitated.
How do you use rehabilitant in a sentence?
Rijksen (1978) observed a rehabilitant aggressively Jabbing with a long stick at a caged clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa).
What part of speech is rehabilitant?
Rehabilitant can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of rehabilitant?
The plural of rehabilitant is rehabilitants.

Words near rehabilitant in the dictionary

  1. rehabbed
  2. rehabber
  3. rehabbers
  4. rehabbing
  5. rehabilitable
  6. rehabilitant
  7. rehabilitants
  8. rehabilitatable
  9. rehabilitate
  10. rehabilitated
  11. rehabilitatee

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