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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not feeling well |
| Synonyms: | below par, debilitated, diseased, down, down with, enfeebled, feeble, feeling awful, ill, indisposed, rocky, run down, sick, sick as a dog, sickly, under the weather, unwell, wasting, weak |
| Antonyms: | healthy |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sick |
| Synonyms: | ailing, diseased, ill, in pain, unwell |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
| 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: | delicate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickly |
| Synonyms: | ailing, debilitated, decrepit, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, infirm, shatterable, shattery, slender, slight, susceptible, tender, unhealthy, weak |
| Antonyms: | healthful, healthy, strong |
| Main Entry: | diseased |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhealthy |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, ailing, indisposed, infected, infectious, infirm, rotten, sick, sickly, tainted, unsound, unwell, unwholesome |
| Antonyms: | fit, healthy |
| Main Entry: | feeble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not strong; ineffective |
| Synonyms: | aged, ailing, chicken*, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, doddering, dopey, effete, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, exhausted, failing, faint, flabby, flat, fragile, frail, gentle, helpless, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, ineffectual, inefficient, infirm, insubstantial, insufficient, lame, languid, low, out of gas, paltry, poor, powerless, puny, sapless, sickly, slight, strengthless, tame, thin, unconvincing, vitiated, weak, weakened, weakly, wimpy, woozy, zero* |
| Antonyms: | able, effective, hardy, healthy, hearty, powerful, solid, sound, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | game |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | debilitated |
| Synonyms: | ailing, bad, crippled, deformed, disabled, incapacitated, injured, lame, maimed, weak |
| Antonyms: | able, capable, working |
| 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 |
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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