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, ailment

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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. Dean Hawkins:

   For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none... If there be one try to find it If there be none, never mind it

2. James Madison, Federalist 10:

   Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

3. Nathaniel Hawthorne:

   A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

4. Ahmadu Kanduwa:

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

5. 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.