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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not healthy |
| Synonyms: | ailing, below par, bilious, cranky, delicate, diseased, down, dragging, faint, feeble, in poor health, indisposed, infirm, lackluster, laid-low, languid, low, mean, off-color, out of action, out of shape, pallid, peaked, peaky, pining, poorly, rocky, run-down, seedy, sickish, unhealthy, wan, weak |
| Antonyms: | fine, healthy, hearty, well, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | ailing |
| 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: | anemic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak and pale |
| Synonyms: | bloodless, feeble, frail, infirm, pallid, sickly, wan, watery |
| Antonyms: | flushed, strong |
| Main Entry: | bloodless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, cadaverous, chalky, colorless, ghostly, lifeless, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly, wan, watery |
| Antonyms: | blushing, flushed, rosy, ruddy, sanguine |
| Main Entry: | colorless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without hue |
| Synonyms: | achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, cadaverous, doughy, drab, dull, faded, flat, ghastly, livid, lurid, neutral, pale, sickly, uncolored, wan, washed out, waxen, white |
| Antonyms: | brilliant, colored, colorful, motley, rich, stimulating, vibrant, vivid |
| 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: | frail |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | breakable, weak |
| Synonyms: | brittle, dainty, decrepit, delicate, feeble, fishy, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frangible, infirm, insubstantial, puny, sad, shatterable, shattery, sickly, slender, slight, slim, tender, tenuous, thin, unsound, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wimpy, wishy-washy, wispy |
| Antonyms: | firm, strong, unbreakable |
| Main Entry: | indisposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not well |
| Synonyms: | ailing, below par, confined, down, down with, feeling rotten, got a bug, ill, infirm, laid up, on sick list, out of action, poorly, sick, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
| Antonyms: | healthy, well |
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