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Synonyms for disease
dɪˈzizdis·ease
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, unsoundnessAntonyms:
health, robustness, soundness, strength, sturdiness, vigor
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
diseasenoun
an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
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Editors Contribution
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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
diseasenoun
Synonyms:
ailment, disorder, malady, complaint, affection, distemper, plague, pestilence, pest, epidemic, endemicAssociated 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
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1067 | condition | |
#1351 | disease | |
#1979 | league | |
#3180 | diseases | |
#4320 | ill | |
#4358 | sick | |
#4507 | infection | |
#4888 | complaint | |
#5235 | illness | |
#5268 | disorder | |
#7104 | pathology | |
#13000 | sickness | |
#13501 | epidemic | |
#13931 | illnesses | |
#15988 | affection | |
#17344 | rot | |
#21037 | morbidity | |
#23812 | pathological | |
#28096 | morbid | |
#50896 | ailment | |
#65670 | malady | |
#72653 | infirmity | |
#79014 | distemper | |
#88853 | maladie | |
#204672 | indisposition | |
#280703 | unsoundness |
How to use disease in a sentence?
The Brazilian authorities have been really strict on what can be brought into the country, it does strike some of us as a little bit strange... because they've certainly got conditions over there like Glanders (a potentially fatal horse disease) that other regions don't have. But they are taking a very strict control on it.
My belief is she was sick and just didn't tell anybody, this is a disease and nobody detects it.
(It's) a risk for anyone with renal disease.
It was seen by many in the field as the disease that parents feared the most, it not only killed a lot of kids but it would often leave families and communities and health systems taking care of lots of very neurologically damaged kids.
Love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and grovelling, and love of pleasure is that which renders us most despicable.
Translations for disease
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- siekteAfrikaans
- سقم, مرض, داء, مرArabic
- xəstəlikAzerbaijani
- хваробаBelarusian
- заболяване, болестBulgarian
- অসুখ, রোগBengali
- སྙུང་གཞི, ན་ཚTibetan Standard
- kleñvedBreton
- malaltiaCatalan, Valencian
- choroba, nemocCzech
- clefyd, afiechydWelsh
- sygdomDanish
- Infektionskrankheit, KrankheitGerman
- αρρώστια, νόσος, πάθηση, ασθένειαGreek
- enfermedadSpanish
- tõbi, haigusEstonian
- eritasunBasque
- مرض, بیماری, ناخوشیPersian
- tauti, sairausFinnish
- sjúkaFaroese
- maladieFrench
- galarIrish
- galar, tinneas, trioblaid, euslaintScottish Gaelic
- doenza, enfermidadeGalician
- מחלהHebrew
- व्याधि, रोगHindi
- kór, betegségHungarian
- հիվանդություն, ախտArmenian
- penyakitIndonesian
- maladesoIdo
- sjúkdómur, sýki, meinIcelandic
- malanno, disturbo, malattiaItalian
- מַחֲלָהHebrew
- 疾病, 病気, 疾患Japanese
- დაავადება, ავადმოყოფობა, სენიGeorgian
- кесел, ауруKazakh
- ជំងឺKhmer
- 질병, 疾病Korean
- نهخۆشیKurdish
- ооруKyrgyz
- morbus, infirmitasLatin
- ໂລກ, ພະຍາດLao
- susirgimas, ligaLithuanian
- liga, slimībaLatvian
- tahumaeroMāori
- болестMacedonian
- രോഗം, സുഖക്കേട്Malayalam
- өвчинMongolian
- penyakitMalay
- mardaMaltese
- ရောဂါBurmese
- sykdomNorwegian
- ziekteDutch
- sjukdomNorwegian
- ରୋଗOriya
- chorobaPolish
- doençaPortuguese
- maladie, boalăRomanian
- заболевание, немочь, нездоровье, болезнь, хворь, недугRussian
- रोगSanskrit
- болест, bȍlēst, зараза, zaraza, оболење, obolenjeSerbo-Croatian
- choroba, nemocSlovak
- bolezenSlovene
- sëmundjeAlbanian
- sjukdomSwedish
- ugonjwaSwahili
- வியாதி, நோய்Tamil
- వ్యాధి, రోగము, జబ్బుTelugu
- мараз, беморӣTajik
- โรคThai
- kesel, syrkawlyk, hassalykTurkmen
- sakitTagalog
- sayrılık, hastalıkTurkish
- хворобаUkrainian
- روگUrdu
- kasal, kasallik, xastalikUzbek
- bệnh, căn bệnhVietnamese
- maläd, näfätamalädVolapük
- קראנקייטYiddish
- 疾病Chinese
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