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. Paul Offit:

   We should be driven by the science, right now, the science tells us the two doses of the mRNA vaccine or a single dose of the Johnson Johnson vaccine would protect you against severe critical disease caused by the Delta variant.

2. Anthony Fauci:

   I am very careful, and hopefully humble, in knowing that I don't know everything about this disease, and that's why I am very careful in making broad predictions.

3. Suzi Brodof:

   The moms are not villains, they suffer from a disease and are taking steps to care for themselves and Women Children, and that's where we come in.

4. Sun Shuopeng:

   In the city of Wuhan after one month since the adoption of the lockdown policy, we see a decreasing trend from the peak of the disease, here in Milan, the hardest hit area by Covid-19, there isn't a very strict lockdown : public transportation is still working and people are still moving around, you're still having dinners and parties in the hotels and you're not wearing masks. We need every citizen to be involved in the fight of Covid-19 and follow this policy.

5. Moncef Slaoui:

   It's much, much harder to help somebody who's already ill because Michael Caputo're so, as you can read in the newspapers or listen in the media, the manifestations of this disease are many, many different diseases because Michael Caputo depend on your health status to start with.