Word Meanings - DISEASED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Afflicted with disease. It is my own diseased imagination that torments me. W. Irving. Syn. -- See Morbid.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISEASED)
- Morbid
- Diseased
- unsound
- unhealthy
- sickly
- Sick
- ill
- disordered
- distempered
- indisposed
- weak
- riling
- feeble
- morbid
- nauseated
- disgusted
- corrupt
- impaired
- valetudinarian
- Sickly
- Weak
- diseased
- ailing
- pining
- droop
- ing
- vitiated
- delicate
- tainted
- valetudinary
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISEASED)
Related words: (words related to DISEASED)
- MORBIDEZZA
Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh. - PINNIPED
One of the Pinnipedia; a seal. One of the Pinnipedes. - PINCPINC
An African wren warbler. . - PINCHBECK
An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry. - DISTEMPERATE
1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe. - DROOPER
One who, or that which, droops. - PINNATIFID
Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib. - PINGUIDINOUS
Containing fat; fatty. - PURIFY
1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt - PINENCHYMA
Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis. - CORRECTLY
In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error. - PINEAPPLE
A tropical plant ; also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American. - VITIATE
1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out - CORRUPTIONIST
One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith. - CORRUPTIBLE
1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation. - AILMENT
Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne. - PINNULA
See PINNULE - PINNULATED
Having pinnules. - PINGUID
Fat; unctuous; greasy. "Some clays are more pinguid." Mortimer. - PINUS
A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced - SAILBOAT
A boat propelled by a sail or sails. - SUNDRILY
In sundry ways; variously. - VENTRILOQUY
See VENTRILOQUISM - LAMBERT PINE
The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States. - PARAVAIL
At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton. - HODGKIN'S DISEASE
A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician. - UNVAIL
See UNVEIL - PAILLON
A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium. - HANGNAIL
A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - CASCARILLA
A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub ; also, its aromatic bark. Cascarilla bark , the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, - SUPINITY
Supineness. Sir T. Browne. - SUPPING
1. The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper. 2. That which is supped; broth. Holland. - SACRILEGIOUS
Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n. - PROPINQUITY
1. Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity. 2. Nearness in time. Sir T. Browne. 3. Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity. Shak. - PERILOUS
1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer. - UNWARILY
In an unwary manner. - PROMISSORILY
In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne. - STRAPPING
Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.