Synonyms: complaint, ailment, ill
Definition: an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
Similar words: upset, disorder
Definition: a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
Usage: the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder; everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time
Synonyms: ill, inauspicious, ominous
Definition: presaging ill fortune
Usage: ill omens; ill predictions; my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven- P.B.Shelley; a dead and ominous silence prevailed; a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government
Similar words: unpropitious
Definition: not propitious
Synonyms: ill
Definition: distressing
Usage: ill manners; of ill repute
Similar words: bad
Definition: having undesirable or negative qualities
Usage: a bad report card; his sloppy appearance made a bad impression; a bad little boy; clothes in bad shape; a bad cut; bad luck; the news was very bad; the reviews were bad; the pay is bad; it was a bad light for reading; the movie was a bad choice
Synonyms: ill
Definition: resulting in suffering or adversity
Usage: ill effects; it's an ill wind that blows no good
Similar words: harmful
Definition: causing or capable of causing harm
Usage: too much sun is harmful to the skin; harmful effects of smoking
Synonyms: ill
Definition: indicating hostility or enmity
Usage: you certainly did me an ill turn; ill feelings; ill will
Similar words: hostile
Definition: characterized by enmity or ill will
Usage: a hostile nation; a hostile remark; hostile actions
Definition: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
Usage: ill from the monotony of his suffering
Similar words: stricken, afflicted
Definition: grievously affected especially by disease
Similar words: aguish
Definition: affected by ague
Similar words: ailing, under the weather, indisposed, poorly, unwell, peaked, sickly, seedy
Definition: somewhat ill or prone to illness
Usage: my poor ailing grandmother; feeling a bit indisposed today; you look a little peaked; feeling poorly; a sickly child; is unwell and can't come to work
Similar words: seasick, air sick, airsick, carsick
Definition: experiencing motion sickness
Similar words: autistic
Definition: characteristic of or affected with autism
Usage: autistic behavior; autistic children
Similar words: bedfast, bedrid, bedridden, sick-abed
Definition: confined to bed (by illness)
Similar words: bilious, liverish, livery
Definition: suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
Similar words: bronchitic
Definition: suffering from or prone to bronchitis
Similar words: consumptive
Definition: afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis
Usage: a consumptive patient; a consumptive cough
Similar words: convalescent, recovering
Definition: returning to health after illness or debility
Usage: convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed
Similar words: delirious, hallucinating
Definition: experiencing delirium
Similar words: diabetic
Definition: suffering from diabetes
Similar words: dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous
Definition: having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
Usage: had a dizzy spell; a dizzy pinnacle; had a headache and felt giddy; a giddy precipice; feeling woozy from the blow on his head; a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff
Similar words: dyspeptic
Definition: suffering from dyspepsia
Similar words: swooning, faint, light, light-headed, lightheaded
Definition: weak and likely to lose consciousness
Usage: suddenly felt faint from the pain; was sick and faint from hunger; felt light in the head; a swooning fit; light-headed with wine; light-headed from lack of sleep
Similar words: feverish, feverous
Definition: having or affected by a fever
Similar words: funny
Definition: experiencing odd bodily sensations
Usage: told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest
Similar words: gouty
Definition: suffering from gout
Similar words: green
Definition: looking pale and unhealthy
Usage: you're looking green; green around the gills
Similar words: stricken, laid low
Definition: put out of action (by illness)
Similar words: laid up
Definition: ill and usually confined
Usage: laid up with a bad cold
Similar words: milk-sick
Definition: affected with or related to milk sickness
Similar words: nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickish, queasy
Definition: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
Similar words: palsied
Definition: affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor
Usage: palsied hands
Similar words: paralytic, paralyzed
Definition: affected with paralysis
Similar words: paraplegic
Definition: suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord
Similar words: rachitic, rickety
Definition: affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets
Usage: rickety limbs and joints; a rachitic patient
Similar words: scrofulous
Definition: afflicted with scrofula
Similar words: sneezy
Definition: inclined to sneeze
Similar words: spastic
Definition: suffering from spastic paralysis
Usage: a spastic child
Similar words: tubercular, tuberculous
Definition: constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus
Usage: a tubercular child; tuberculous patients; tubercular meningitis
Similar words: unhealed
Definition: not healed
Usage: an unhealed wound
Similar words: upset
Definition: mildly physically distressed
Usage: an upset stomach