Bedfast

Quick meaning: Bedfast is an adjective meaning Unable to leave one's bed, especially because of illness, weakness or obesity.

Meaning

Unable to leave one's bed, especially because of illness, weakness or obesity.

More Meanings

1. A joint or hook that attaches a bedrail to a headboard or footboard.
2. One who is bedfast.

Example Sentences

1948, Robert Heinlein, Space Cadet (1948), from the edition reissued in 1975 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC: p. 118, lines 13 through 15. "She had been a very active woman... Now she was bed-fast and had been for three years."

From then on Joachim assumed a permanently horizontal position, and Hans Castorp wrote to Luise Ziemssen about it—wrote to her from his splendid lounge chair that he must now add to his earlier occasional reports the news that Joachim was bedfast […]

1976, Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra (1975), translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, Dalkey Archive, 2003, p. 592, "It is a place of bed-fast people, Señor, where all those who tire of life, or of whom life has tired, exhausted old men, disillusioned youths, dishonored families, take to their beds and pledge never to arise until death carries them off feet-first. […] "

Word Forms

• bed-fast
• bedfasts
• bed fast

Synonyms for bedfast

Depending on context, synonyms include bedbound, bedridden, infirm, sick, ill, bedrid.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bedridden, bedrid, infirm, sick, ill, sick-abed.

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