| Main Entry: | syndrome |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease, condition |
Synonyms: |
affection, ailment, complaint, complex, diagnostics, disorder, infirmity, malady, problem, prognostics, sickness, sign, symptoms |
| Notes: | syndrome is from Greek elements meaning 'run together' and is a group of symptoms; synopsis literally means 'seeing together' |
| Main Entry: | ailment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mild sickness |
Synonyms: |
ache, bug, complaint, condition, disease, disorder, dose, flu, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, syndrome |
Antonyms: |
health |
| Main Entry: | complaint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illness, affliction |
Synonyms: |
affection, ailment, condition, disease, disorder, ill, indisposition, infirmity, malady, sickness, syndrome, upset |
Antonyms: |
health |
| Main Entry: | complex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | composite, aggregate |
Synonyms: |
association, compound, conglomerate, ecosystem, entanglement, group, network, organization, scheme, structure, syndrome, synthesis, system, totality |
| Notes: | something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated |
| Main Entry: | condition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illness |
Synonyms: |
affection, ailment, complaint, disease, ill, infirmity, malady, predicament, problem, syndrome, temper, weakness |
| Main Entry: | disease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ailment, affliction |
Synonyms: |
ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug*, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition, contagion, contamination, convulsions, debility, decrepitude, defect, disorder, distemper, endemic, epidemic, feebleness, fever, fit, flu, hemorrhage, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, inflammation, malady, misery, pathosis, plague, seizure, sickliness, sickness, spell, stroke, syndrome, temperature, unhealthiness, unsoundness, upset, virus, visitation |
Antonyms: |
health |
| Main Entry: | ill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune |
Synonyms: |
abuse, affection, affliction, ailment, badness, complaint, condition, cruelty, damage, depravity, destruction, disease, disorder, evil, harm, hurt, illness, indisposition, infirmity, injury, insult, malady, malaise, malice, mischief, misery, pain, sickness, suffering, syndrome, trial, tribulation, trouble, unpleasantness, wickedness, woe, wrong |
Antonyms: |
benefit, blessing, fortune, happiness, luck, privilege, profit, prosperity |
| Main Entry: | illness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease; bad health |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailing, ailment, attack, breakdown, bug*, collapse, complaint, confinement, convalescence, disability, diseasedness, disorder, disturbance, dose, failing health, fit, flu, ill health, indisposition, infirmity, malady, malaise, poor health, prostration, relapse, seizure, sickness, syndrome, unhealth, virus, what's going around |
Antonyms: |
good health, health, well-being, wellness |
| Main Entry: | malady |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease |
Synonyms: |
ache, affection, affliction, ailment, attack, blight, bug*, cancer, complaint, condition, contagion, debility, disability, disorder, distemper, epidemic, fever, flu, ill health, illness, infection, infirmity, inflammation, plague, sickness, syndrome, virus |
| Main Entry: | sickness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ill or abnormal condition |
Synonyms: |
affection, affliction, ailment, bug*, complaint, condition, disease, diseasedness, disorder, ill, ill health, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, nausea, queasiness, syndrome, unhealth, unhealthfulness, unwellness |
Antonyms: |
good health, health, wholesomeness |