Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun patient_role

1 sense of patient role

Sense 1
affected role, patient role, 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)
       => semantic role, participant role -- ((linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause)