Word Meanings - SICKNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady. I do lament the sickness of the king. Shak. Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. Pope. 2. Nausea; qualmishness;
Additional info about word: SICKNESS
1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady. I do lament the sickness of the king. Shak. Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. Pope. 2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach. Syn. -- Illness; disease; malady. See Illness.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SICKNESS)
- Ailment
- Complaint
- sickness
- illness
- disease
- Murmur
- discontent
- repining
- grievance
- annoyance
- remonstrance
- expostulation
- lamentation
- Disease
- disorder
- indisposition
- distemper
- ailment
- malady
- Disorder
- complaint
Related words: (words related to SICKNESS)
- DISTEMPERATE
1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe. - AILMENT
Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne. - REPINER
One who repines. - ILLNESS
1. The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness. "The illness of the weather." Locke. 2. Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness. 3. Wrong moral conduct; wickedness. - DISTEMPERATURE
1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures - DISEASEFUL
1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate. - DISCONTENT
Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan. - MURMUR
1. A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water. 2. A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. Chaucer. Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs. Dryden. - MURMUROUS
Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson. - DISEASEFULNESS
The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney. - ANNOYANCE
1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. - DISTEMPERANCE
Distemperature. - DISORDER
1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And - REPININGLY
With repening or murmuring. - DISORDERLY
Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder; - MURMURATION
The act of murmuring; a murmur. Skelton. - INDISPOSITION
1. The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury. 2. A slight disorder or illness. Rather as an indisposition in health than as - DISORDERED
1. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment. 2. Disorderly. Shak. -- Dis*or"dered*ly, adv. -- Dis*or"dered*ness, n. - MURMURER
One who murmurs. - COMPLAINTFUL
Full of complaint. - HODGKIN'S DISEASE
A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician. - JUMPING DISEASE
A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine. - ASSAILMENT
The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson. - SHRILLNESS
The quality or state of being shrill. - AGGRIEVANCE
Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. - WAILMENT
Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. Bp. Hacket. - LOVE-SICKNESS
The state of being love-sick. - WEIL'S DISEASE
An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc. - AVAILMENT
Profit; advantage.