Synonyms for Disease
dɪˈzizdis·ease

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1. diseasenoun

   Synonyms:
   illness, rot, malady

2. diseasenoun

   To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.

   The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.

   Synonyms:
   rot, illness, malady

3. diseaseverb

   To infect with a disease.

   Synonyms:
   rot, illness, malady

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1. disease

   Disease is the general term for any deviation from health; in a more limited sense it denotes some definite morbid condition; disorder and affection are rather partial and limited; as, a nervous affection; a disorder of the digestive system. Sickness was generally used in English speech and literature, till the close of the eighteenth century at least, for every form of physical disorder, as abundantly appears in the English Bible: "Jesus went about ... healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people," Matt. iv, 23; "Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died," 2 Kings xiii, 14. There is now, in England, a tendency to restrict the words sick and sickness to nausea, or "sickness at the stomach," and to hold ill and illness as the only proper words to use in a general sense. This distinction has received but a very limited acceptance in the United States, where sick and sickness have the earlier and wider usage. We speak of trifling ailments, a slight indisposition, a serious or a deadly disease; a slight or severe illness; a painful sickness. Complaint is a popular term, which may be applied to any degree of ill health, slight or severe. Infirmity denotes a chronic or lingering weakness or disability, as blindness or lameness.

   Synonyms:
   affection, ailment, complaint, disorder, distemper, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, sickness, unhealthiness, unsoundness

   Antonyms:
   health, robustness, soundness, strength, sturdiness, vigor

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1. disease

   Synonyms:
   complaint, disorder, illness, indisposition, distemper, ailment, malady, sickness

   Antonyms:
   health, convalescence, sanity, salubrity

Princeton's WordNet

1. diseasenoun

   an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

Matched Categories

1. • Illness

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1. medical condition

   a type of disease that affect’s physical health

   mark had a medical condition in his heart, luckily the doctors treated it

   Submitted by cj_t on July 9, 2023  

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1. diseasenoun

   Synonyms:
   disorder, distemper, malady, complaint, ail, ailment, sickness, illness, indisposition

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1. diseasenoun

   Synonyms:
   ailment, disorder, malady, complaint, affection, distemper, plague, pestilence, pest, epidemic, endemic

   Antonyms:
   health, vigor

   Associated words:
   nosology, nosography, etiology, nosogeny, pathology, pathologist, pathological, pathogeny, therapeutics, symptomatology, diagnosis, pathognomonic, diagnostics, semeiology, semeiography, clinic, polyclinic, prognosis, contagion, infection, contagious, infectious, zoonosology, enantiopathy, loimography, loimology, quarantine, pathogene, germ, microbe, bacteria, bacillus, incubation

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1. List of paraphrases for "disease":

   illness, diseases, sickness, illnesses, sick, morbidity, maladie, malady, epidemic, condition, ailment, ill-health, ill, infection, disorder, pathological, league, morbid, pathology, affection

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How to use Disease in a sentence?

1. Jen Gommerman:

   So, the raw amount of antibody in our serum is going down to a level where you will be susceptible to infection and the only way to get those antibodies back up quickly, is to either get infected or get boosted, however, if we consider efficacy against hospitalization and severe disease, the data coming out show that three doses of the mRNA vaccine confirm excellent protection against hospitalization, ventilation and death.

2. Tim Spector:

   When combined with other symptoms, people with loss of smell and taste appear to be three times more likely to have contracted COVID-19 according to our data, and should therefore self-isolate for seven days to reduce the spread of the disease.

3. Anthony Fauci:

   If and when the infections will come -- and they will come, sorry to say, sad to say -- when you're dealing with an infectious disease... we want to be where the infection is going to be, as well as where it is.

4. Alex Travis:

   Instead of trying to cure disease, we can help prevent it from happening in the first place.

5. Catherine Lomen-Hoerth:

   Treatments work best when given prior to symptoms starting or at the very start of symptom onset. This is something not possible with sporadic ALS because it takes time to establish a diagnosis, and by then, the symptoms can be quite advanced, while this treatment would only affect 2% of ALS patients, it may be much more impactful than other treatments for ALS, since it can be administered much earlier in the disease process -- perhaps even before a patient develops symptoms.