Synonyms for ailment
Definitions
- n. 1
Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
Near-synonym: complaint (contextually synonymous)
Related words
- Phrases
- status ailment
Forms
- Plural
- ailments → maladies, diseases, illnesses, sicknesses…
Example sentences
- disease Eating healthfully can help prevent heart disease.
- illness Tom attributed his failure in the exam to illness.
- sickness Her sickness, she is the only one afflicted by it.
- malady The doctor said that this malady is untreatable.
By length
- 3 letters
- ill1
- 6 letters
- malady3
- 7 letters
- disease2, trouble2, illness2
- 8 letters
- disorder3, sickness2
- 9 letters
- complaint2, distemper3
- 13 letters
- indisposition
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (malady3 = 3 syllables).