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illness - 18 thesaurus results
| 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 |
| Notes: | illness means sickness or poor health, while a disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
| Antonyms: | good health, health, well-being, wellness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affliction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hurt condition; something that causes hurt |
| Synonyms: | adversity, anguish, calamity, cross, crux, depression, difficulty, disease, disorder, distress, grief, hardship, illness, infirmity, misery, misfortune, ordeal, pain, plague, plight, scourge, sickness, sorrow, suffering, torment, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe |
| Antonyms: | aid, comfort, consolation, health, help, relief |
| Main Entry: | ailment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mild sickness |
| Synonyms: | ache, bug, complaint, condition, disease, disorder, dose*, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, syndrome, flu |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contagion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infection |
| Synonyms: | bane, contamination, corruption, illness, miasma, pestilence, plague, poison, pollution, taint, transmission, venom, virus |
| Main Entry: | disease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ailment, affliction |
| Synonyms: | ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug*, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition, contagion, contamination, debility, decrepitude, defect, disorder, distemper, endemic, epidemic, feebleness, fever, fit, hemorrhage, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, inflammation, malady, misery, plague, seizure, sickness, spell, stroke, syndrome, temperature, upset, virus, visitation, convulsions, flu, ill health, pathosis, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune |
| Synonyms: | abuse, affection, affliction, ailment, 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, badness |
| Antonyms: | benefit, blessing, fortune, happiness, luck, privilege, profit, prosperity |
| 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, illness, infection, infirmity, inflammation, plague, sickness, syndrome, virus, flu, ill health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | malaise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, sickness |
| Synonyms: | angst, anxiety, debility, decrepitude, despair, discomfort, disquiet, distress, doldrums, feebleness, illness, infirmity, lassitude, melancholy, pain, uneasiness, weakness, enervation, infirmness, sickliness, unease, unhealthiness |
| Antonyms: | good health, healthiness, well being |
| Main Entry: | sickness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ill or abnormal condition |
| Synonyms: | affection, affliction, ailment, bug*, complaint, condition, disease, disorder, ill, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, nausea, syndrome, diseasedness, ill health, queasiness, unhealth, unhealthfulness, unwellness |
| Antonyms: | health, good health, wholesomeness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | upset |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | problem |
| Synonyms: | agitation, bother, complaint, defeat, destruction, disorder, disquiet, distress, disturbance, free-for-all*, goulash*, hassle, illness, malady, overthrow, reverse, reversion, shock, sickness, stew*, subversion, surprise, trouble, turmoil, worry, queasiness, screw-up, shake-up, tizzy |
| Antonyms: | calm, happiness, peace, solution |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | virus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bacterium, bug |
| Synonyms: | ailment, disease, germ, illness, infection, microbe, microorganism, sickness, bacillus, pathogen |
| Main Entry: | damage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury, loss |
| Synonyms: | accident, adulteration, adversity, affliction, bane, blemish, blow, breakage, bruise, casualty, catastrophe, contamination, corruption, debasement, depreciation, deprivation, destruction, deterioration, detriment, devastation, disservice, disturbance, evil, hardship, harm, hurt, illness, infliction, knockout, mischief, mishap, outrage, pollution, ravage, reverse, ruin, stroke, suffering, waste, wound, wreckage, wrecking, wrong, cave-in, impairment, marring, mutilation, ruining, spoilage |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, favor, improvement, profit |
| Main Entry: | gripe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complaint |
| Synonyms: | ache, affliction, disorder, distress, grievance, groan, grouse, grumble, illness, indisposition, infirmity, moan, objection, pain, pang, aching |
| Antonyms: | compliment, flattery, praise |
| Main Entry: | pain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical suffering |
| Synonyms: | ache, affliction, agony, burn, catch, convulsion, cramp, crick, discomfort, distress, fever, gripe, hurt, illness, injury, irritation, laceration, malady, misery, pang, paroxysm, prick, sickness, spasm, sting, stitch, strain, tenderness, throb, throe, tingle, torment, torture, trouble, twinge, wound, smarting, soreness |
| Antonyms: | comfort, health, well-being, good health |
| Main Entry: | seizure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | convulsive attack |
| Synonyms: | access, breakdown, convulsion, fit, illness, paroxysm, spasm, spell, stroke, throe, turn |
| Main Entry: | attack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden dysfunction or disorder |
| Synonyms: | access, ailment, bout, breakdown, convulsion, disease, failure, fit, illness, paroxysm, relapse, seizure, spasm, spell, stroke, throe |
| Antonyms: | health |
| Main Entry: | spell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seizure |
| Synonyms: | access, attack, fit, illness, jag, paroxysm, spasm, stroke, throe, turn |
| Main Entry: | trouble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad health |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailment, complaint, curse, defect, disability, disease, disorder, failure, illness, malady, malfunction, upset |
| Antonyms: | fitness, good health |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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