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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | contagion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infection |
| Synonyms: | bane, contamination, corruption, illness, miasma, pestilence, plague, poison, pollution, taint, transmission, venom, virus |
| Main Entry: | damage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury, loss |
| Synonyms: | accident, adulteration, adversity, affliction, bane, blemish, blow, breakage, bruise, casualty, catastrophe, cave-in, contamination, corruption, debasement, depreciation, deprivation, destruction, deterioration, detriment, devastation, disservice, disturbance, evil, hardship, harm, hurt, illness, impairment, infliction, knockout, marring, mischief, mishap, mutilation, outrage, pollution, ravage, reverse, ruin, ruining, spoilage, stroke, suffering, waste, wound, wreckage, wrecking, wrong |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, favor, improvement, profit |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gripe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complaint |
| Synonyms: | ache, aching, affliction, disorder, distress, grievance, groan, grouse, grumble, illness, indisposition, infirmity, moan, objection, pain, pang |
| Antonyms: | compliment, flattery, praise |
| 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: | 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, flu, ill health, illness, infection, infirmity, inflammation, plague, sickness, syndrome, virus |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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