Synonyms for ailment
ˈeɪl məntail·ment

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1. ailment

   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, complaint, disease, disorder, distemper, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, sickness, unhealthiness, unsoundness

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

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1. ailment

   Synonyms:
   complaint, sickness, illness, disease

   Antonyms:
   recovery, convalescence, sanity, health, robustness, vigor, salubriousness

2. ailment

   Synonyms:
   food, sustentation, nutriment, pabulum, victuals, provision, meat, sustenance, nourishment

   Antonyms:
   poison, bane, venom, starvation, exhaustion

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1. ailment, complaint, illnoun

   an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

   Synonyms:
   ill, complaint, charge

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1. ailmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   disease, ail, illness, sickness, ailing, indisposition, malady, distemper, disorder, complaint

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1. ailmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   malady, disorder, complaint, illness

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1. List of paraphrases for "ailment":

   affection, malaise, disease, illness

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How to use ailment in a sentence?

1. Ahmadu Kanduwa:

   I have this thought, if he had received say five or six doses, he would have been immune from this ailment.

2. Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee:

   The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.

3. Linda Carnes-McNaughton:

   We just have to understand that these people were suffering, they were seeking relief for any kind of ailment, and certainly if there was warfare on the water, there were wounds among other ailments that needed treatment. It wasn't always a formally trained person in desperate times. That's probably more common than we know.

4. Phil Noble:

   It's not that she raises a bunch of money for a PAC that causes her problems with middle class voters. That is a symptom as opposed to the ailment, the larger illness is she is out of touch with middle class voters -- she does have a lifestyle and a history that is about as alien to middle class voters as corporate jets are to a Subaru.

5. Anna Yaffee:

   The general public may not be aware of the realities of health care in general and certainly not during this pandemic, but I hope that sharing the images reinforces the point that there are people out there who are working tirelessly around the clock to provide lifesaving supportive care to those who are sick, from coronavirus as well as from every other ailment, we aren't heroes, we are just doing our jobs, and right now our jobs are asking more of us in a time when we have fewer resources to work with. We are doing this because we care.