| 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 |
| Main Entry: | sickness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
taking, afflicted with illness, ailing, anorectic, azotic, bedridden, broken, carious, catching, chlorotic, clonic, confined, congenital, conspurcated, contagious, contaminated, crample, cresty, crippled, cronk, cryptogenic, deadly, decayed, decrepit, deleterious, diseased, donsie, drooping, dysepulotic, dyspeptic, emphysematous, emunctory, endemic, envenomed, epidemic, epizootic, febrifacient, flagging, flatulent, furuncular, gasping, halting, healthless, helminthous, iatrogenic, ill, ill of, in a bad way, in danger, in declining health, in hospital, incurable, indigestible, indisposed, infectious, infirm, innutritious, insalubrious, insanable, invaletudinary, invalided, laid up, lame, lazarous, lectual, leprous, loimic, luetic, maliferous, mangy, mephitic, morbid, morbiferous, morbific, morbilious, moribund, morose, narcotic, nauseous, neuromimetic, noisome, nosocomial, nosopoetic, noxious, on the sick list, out of health, out of sorts, palsied, paralytic, peccant, peracute, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, phanerogenic, phthistic, poisoned, poisonous, poorly, prodromal, prosodemic, prostrate, purulent, qualmish, rabid, rotten, rotten at the core, rotten to the core, sanable, scorbutic, seasick, seedy, seized with, septic, sick, sickly, spavin, squeamish, stuporous, tabid, tainted, taken ill, tenesmic, theriodic, touched in the wind, toxic, tussive, ulcerated, unbraced, uncongenial, ungenial, unhealthy, unsound, unwell, unwholesome, valetudinary, variolate, venomous, virulent, vitiated, weakened, weakly, withered, zymotic
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| 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: | cancer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | malignant growth |
Synonyms: |
C, big C, canker, carcinoma, corruption, disease, long illness, malignancy, sickness, tumor |
Antonyms: |
benignity |
| 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: | 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 |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning illness means sickness or poor health, while a disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
Antonyms: |
health |
| Main Entry: | disgust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aversion; repulsion |
Synonyms: |
abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, detestation, dislike, distaste, hatefulness, hatred, loathing, nausea, nauseation, nauseousness, objection, repugnance, revolt, revulsion, satiation, satiety, sickness, surfeit |
Antonyms: |
admiration, appeal, desire, esteem, fondness, like, liking, loving, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | disorder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illness |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailment, cachexia, complaint, disease, diseasedness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, sickness, unhealth, upset |
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 |