| Main Entry: | infirmity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness, sickness |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flu, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, malady, malaise, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unwellness, vulnerability |
Antonyms: |
good health, healthiness, robustness, soundness, strength |
| 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, 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: | condition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illness |
Synonyms: |
affection, ailment, complaint, disease, ill, infirmity, malady, predicament, problem, syndrome, temper, weakness |
| Main Entry: | debility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incapacity, weakness |
Synonyms: |
decrepitude, disease, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion, faintness, feebleness, frailty, infirmity, languor, malaise, sickliness, unhealthiness |
| Notes: | debility is the state of being weak in health or body; disability is the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; inability is lack of mental ability or physical ability to do something |
Antonyms: |
ability, capability, health, strength, vigor |
| Main Entry: | defect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blemish, imperfection |
Synonyms: |
birthmark, blot, blotch, break, bug, catch, check, crack, deficiency, deformity, discoloration, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, gap, glitch, gremlin, hole, infirmity, injury, irregularity, kink, knot, lack, mark, marring, mistake, patch, rift, rough spot, scar, scarcity, scratch, seam, second, shortage, shortcoming, sin, speck, spot, stain, taint, unsoundness, vice, want, weak point, weakness |
Antonyms: |
advantage, improvement, perfection, strength |
| Main Entry: | delicacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daintiness, fineness of structure |
Synonyms: |
airiness, debility, diaphaneity, elegance, etherealness, exquisiteness, fragility, frailness, frailty, gossameriness, infirmity, lightness, slenderness, smoothness, softness, subtlety, tenderness, tenuity, translucency, transparency, weakness |
Antonyms: |
coarseness, heaviness, indelicacy, inelegance, robustness, roughness |
| Main Entry: | disability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage, restriction |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailment, defect, detriment, disqualification, drawback, impairment, inability, incapacity, incompetency, inexperience, infirmity, injury, invalidity, lack, unfitness, weakness |
Antonyms: |
advantage, fitness, strength |
| 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 |