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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1. Mr vybs live:

   As of now, if you want to marry from Kiruhura District, they'll give you a wife and you take cows later because of the foot and mouth disease

2. Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Pence:

   This is a public health emergency and I'm listening to my health department, I'm listening to the Centers for Disease Control and I'll make my decision based on the best science and the best way we can stop this virus and stop this outbreak in its tracks.

3. Avril Lavigne:

   This is what they do to a lot of people who have Lyme disease, they don’t have an answer for them so they tell them, like, ‘You’re crazy.'.

4. Lindsay Bull:

   I got lucky to land in a hospital that employs what has to be the best orthopedic surgeon in Utah. He was able to improvise and come up with a solution that should result in full use of my hand. I can’t explain the level of admiration I have for that man, I’m being treated aggressively with antibiotics, which I’m thankful the Infectious Disease staff here were prepared to do. Lastly, I’ve had the most wonderful nursing staff that have made me feel safe and comfortable since I got here. I definitely want to thank everyone that has reached out and for doing so, as well; it’s made recovery feel so much more manageable!

5. Molly MacDonald:

   I kind of thought it would be better if cancer had taken my life, if I had an advanced disease and died my children would not be homeless.