sickness

Main Entry:
malady [mal-uh-dee]
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
Main Entry: pestilence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: epidemic
Synonyms: contagion, disease, endemic, infection, outbreak, plague, rash, scourge, sickness, virus
Main Entry: syndrome
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disease, condition
Synonyms: affection, ailment, complaint, complex, diagnostics, disorder, infirmity, malady, problem, prognostics, sickness, sign, symptoms
Notes: syndrome is from Greek elements meaning 'run together' and is a group of symptoms; synopsis literally means 'seeing together'
Main Entry: upset
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: problem
Synonyms: agitation, bother, complaint, defeat, destruction, disorder, disquiet, distress, disturbance, free-for-all, goulash, hassle, illness, malady, overthrow, queasiness, reverse, reversion, screw-up, shake-up, shock, sickness, stew, subversion, surprise, tizzy, trouble, turmoil, worry
Antonyms: calm, happiness, peace, solution
Main Entry: virus
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bacterium, bug
Synonyms: ailment, bacillus, disease, germ, illness, infection, microbe, microorganism, pathogen, sickness
Main Entry: paleness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pallor
Synonyms: anemia, colorlessness, lividness, pallidness, sickness, whiteness
Main Entry: indisposition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dislike
Synonyms: affliction, ailment, averseness, discomfort, disinclination, disorder, illness, infirmity, malady, malaise, reluctance, resentment, sickness, unwillingness
Main Entry: soreness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pain
Synonyms: ache, affliction, agony, burn, catch, convulsion, cramp, crick, discomfort, distress, fever, gripe, hurt, illness, injury, irritation, laceration, malady, misery, pang, paroxysm, prick, prickle, sickness, smart*, smarting, spasm, stab, sting*, stitch, strain, tenderness, throb, throe, tingle, torment, torture, trouble, twinge, wound
Related Words
Main Entry: pain
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
a prey to, a prey to grief, abhorrent, accursed, aching, acute, affecting, afflicted, afflicting, afflictive, aggravating, agonizing, algedonic, amyctic, annoying, anxious, aponic, appalling, awkward, between hawk and buzzard, biting, bitter, bothering, broken, calamitous, careworn, carking, causing pain, caustic, chagrined, cheerless, comfortless, concerned, consuming, corroding, cruel, crushed, crushing, cumbersome, cumbrous, cut up, cutting, deplorable, depressing, depressive, desolating, devoted, dire, disagreeable, disastrous, discontented, disgusting, disheartening, dismal, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, distressing, disturbed, dolorific, dolorous, doomed, dreadful, dreary, enough to drive one mad, enough to make a person swear, enough to provoke a saint, envenomed, excruciating, execrable, fashed, fearful, frightful, full of pain, fulsome, galling, grating, grave, grievous, grim, grinding, griped, hagridden, harassing, hard, harrowing, harsh, hateful, heart, heart, heart, heart, heavy, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrified, horrifying, horror, hurting, ill, ill at ease, in a state of pain, in a taking, in a way, in despair, in grief, in limbo, in pain, in tears, infelicitous, insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, invidious, irksome, irritating, joyless, kedogenous, lamentable, loathful, loathsome, lost, melancholy, melpomenish, miserable, more than flesh and blood can bear, mortifying, mournful, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, not to be borne, not to be endured, obnoxious, odious, offensive, on the rack, onerous, oppressive, out of humor, pained, painful, past bearing, pathetic, pestering, piteous, pitiable, plaguing, plaguy, plunged in grief, poor, provoking, racking, rending, repellent, repulsive, revolting, rueful, ruinous, sad, searching, severe, sharp, shocking, sickening, sore, sorrowful, sorrowing, sorry, steeped to the lips in misery, stinging, stranded, stricken, suffering, teasing, terrific, thankless, thrilling, tiresome, to be pitied, tormenting, torminous, torturous, touching, tragical, tremendous, troublesome, unacceptable, unaccommodating, unbearable, uncomfortable, undesirable, undesired, undone, uneasy, unendurable, unfortunate, unhappy, uninviting, unlucky, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpleasing, unpopular, unsatisfactory, untoward, unwelcome, vexatious, victimized, vile, vulnerative, wearisome, weary, withering, wobegone, woeful, worried, worrying, wretched
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