malady

Noun

  1. any unwholesome or desperate condition; “what maladies afflict our nation?”
    • Less specific
      • condition
      • status
  2. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
    • Synonyms
      • illness
      • unwellness
      • sickness
    • Antonyms
      • health
      • wellness
      • health
      • wellness
    • Less specific
      • ill health
      • unhealthiness
      • health problem
    • More specific
      • condition
      • ague
      • amyloidosis
      • anuresis
      • anuria
      • catastrophic illness
      • collapse
      • prostration
      • decompression sickness
      • aeroembolism
      • air embolism
      • gas embolism
      • caisson disease
      • bends
      • food poisoning
      • gastrointestinal disorder
      • lead poisoning
      • plumbism
      • saturnism
      • disease
      • hypermotility
      • indisposition
      • ozone sickness
      • toxemia of pregnancy
      • toxaemia of pregnancy
      • toxemia
      • toxaemia
      • growth
    • Related
      • ill
      • sick
      • ailing
      • indisposed
      • peaked
      • poorly
      • sickly
      • unwell
      • under the weather
      • seedy
      • ill
      • sick

The following are the words that are in the New Word Project:


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The definition for this word taken from the Terminology app, which is based on the Princeton University’s WordNet lexical database. If you are interested in how I created this resource and how I add new words to it, you can see my blog post Title of Blog Post.

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