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| Main Entry: | ailing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not feeling well |
| Synonyms: | below par, debilitated, diseased, down, feeble, ill, indisposed, rocky*, run down*, sick, sickly, under the weather*, unwell, weak, down with, enfeebled, feeling awful, sick as a dog, wasting |
| Antonyms: | healthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurt |
| Synonyms: | afflict, annoy, bother, distress, pain, sicken, trouble, upset |
| Notes: | ale is a fermented alcoholic beverage containing malt and hops, similar to but heavier than beer; to ail is to feel ill or have pain |
| Main Entry: | bedridden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sick in bed |
| Synonyms: | ailing, disabled, flat on one's back, ill, incapacitated, infirm, invalid, laid up, prostrate |
| Main Entry: | diseased |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhealthy |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, ailing, indisposed, infectious, infirm, rotten, sick, sickly, tainted, unsound, unwell, unwholesome, infected |
| Antonyms: | fit, healthy |
| Main Entry: | feeble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not strong; ineffective |
| Synonyms: | aged, ailing, chicken*, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, doddering, dopey*, effete, enervated, exhausted, failing, faint, flabby*, flat, fragile, frail, gentle, helpless, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, ineffectual, inefficient, infirm, insubstantial, insufficient, lame, languid, low, paltry, poor, powerless, puny, sickly, slight, tame, thin, unconvincing, weak, weakened, woozy*, zero*, emasculated, enfeebled, etiolated, out of gas, sapless, strengthless, vitiated, weakly, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | able, effective, hardy, healthy, hearty, powerful, solid, sound, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infirm |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sick, weak |
| Synonyms: | ailing, anemic, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, failing, faint, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, halting, ill, insecure, irresolute, lame, shaky, unsound, unstable, unsubstantial, vacillating, wavering, wobbly, anile, enfeebled, faltering, laid low, sensile |
| Antonyms: | firm, healthy, hearty, robust, sound, strong |
| Main Entry: | infirmity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness, sickness |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, disease, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, frailty, imperfection, indisposition, malady, malaise, shortcoming, debilitation, diseasedness, flu, ill health, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unwellness, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | soundness, strength, good health, healthiness, robustness |
| Main Entry: | morbid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, nasty, sickly |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, ailing, dark, deadly, depressed, despondent, diseased, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, irascible, macabre, malignant, melancholy, monstrous, moody, pessimistic, saturnine, sick, somber, sullen, unhealthy, unnatural, unsound, unusual, unwholesome, brooding, horrid, infected |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, healthy, pleased, sound |
| Main Entry: | peaked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, sick |
| Synonyms: | ailing, emaciated, ill, poorly, sickly, under the weather*, wan, bilious, in bad shape, peaky |
| Antonyms: | blushing, colorful, flushed, healthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poorly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not well |
| Synonyms: | ailing, below par, failing, ill, indisposed, low, mean, out of sorts*, rotten*, sick, sickly, under the weather*, unwell |
| Antonyms: | healthy, well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | seedy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | run-down, dilapidated |
| Synonyms: | ailing, beat up, bedraggled, crummy*, decaying, decrepit, dingy, drooping, droopy, faded, frowzy, grubby, mangy, messy, neglected, old, overgrown, poor, poorly, ragged, ratty, scruffy, shabby, sickly, sleazy*, slovenly, squalid, tacky, tattered, threadbare, tired, torn, unkempt, untidy, unwell, worn, dog-eared, down-at-the-heel*, flagging, gone to seed, in a bad way, sagging, used up, wilted, wilting |
| Antonyms: | luxurious, nice, posh |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsound |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not well; flimsy |
| Synonyms: | ailing, crazed, dangerous, decrepit, defective, delicate, demented, deranged, diseased, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, fragile, frail, ill, illogical, inaccurate, incongruous, incorrect, infirm, insane, insecure, insubstantial, invalid, lunatic, mad, rickety, shaky, specious, unbalanced, unhealthy, unhinged, unreliable, unsafe, unstable, unsteady, unsubstantial, unwell, weak, wobbly, flawed, in poor health, not solid, tottering, unbacked |
| Antonyms: | safe, sound, stable, strong, well |
| Main Entry: | unwell |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sick |
| Synonyms: | ailing, bedridden, debilitated, diseased, feeble, feverish, frail, ill, impaired, incurable, infirm, invalid, nauseated, run down, sickly, suffering, under the weather*, unhealthy, weak, broken down, hospitalized, in poor health, infected, laid-up, not feeling well, sick as a dog, under medication |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | under the weather |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | not feeling well |
| Synonyms: | ailing, bedridden, below par, diseased, ill, out of sorts, run-down, sick, sickly, unhealthy, unwell |
| Main Entry: | ill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sick |
| Synonyms: | a wreck, afflicted, ailing, below par*, bummed, diseased, down, down with, feeling awful, feeling rotten, feeling terrible, got the bug, indisposed, infirm, laid low, off one's feet, on sick list, out of sorts*, peaked, poorly, queasy, rotten, run-down, running temperature, sick as a dog, under the weather*, unhealthy, unwell, woozy* |
| Antonyms: | good, healthy, sound, strong, well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indisposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not well |
| Synonyms: | ailing, below par, confined, down, ill, infirm, poorly, sick, sickly, under the weather*, unwell, down with, feeling rotten, got a bug, laid up, on sick list, out of action |
| Antonyms: | healthy, well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | miserable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy, depressed |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, ailing, brokenhearted, crestfallen, dejected, desolate, despairing, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, discontented, distressed, doleful, dolorous, down, down in the mouth*, downcast, forlorn, gloomy, heartbroken, hopeless, hurt, ill, injured, melancholy, mournful, pained, pathetic, rueful, sad, sick, sickly, sorrowful, strained, suffering, tragic, troubled, woebegone, wounded, wretched, agonized, anguished, hurting, in pain, on a downer, pitiable, racked, ruthful, tormented, tortured |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, elated, happy, joyful, merry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not healthy, not feeling well |
| Synonyms: | ailing, bedridden, confined, debilitated, defective, delicate, diseased, disordered, down, feeble, feverish, frail, funny*, green*, ill, impaired, imperfect, incurable, indisposed, infirm, invalid, lousy, mean, nauseated, peaked, poorly, queasy, rickety, rocky, rotten, run down, suffering, under the weather*, unhealthy, unwell, weak, wobbly, broken down, declining, hospitalized, in a bad way, in poor health, infected, laid-up, not so hot, qualmish, sick as a dog, tottering, under medication |
| Antonyms: | healthy, well, undiseased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sickly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not healthy |
| Synonyms: | ailing, below par, cranky, delicate, diseased, down, dragging, faint, feeble, indisposed, infirm, lackluster, languid, low, mean, off-color*, pallid, peaked, poorly, rocky, run-down, seedy, unhealthy, wan, weak, bilious, in poor health, laid-low, out of action, out of shape, peaky, pining, sickish |
| Antonyms: | fine, healthy, hearty, well, wholesome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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