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ILL HEALTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain
Synonyms:
health problem; ill health; unhealthiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("ill health" is a kind of...):
pathological state (a physical condition that is caused by disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ill health"):
dyscrasia (an abnormal or physiologically unbalanced state of the body)
illness; malady; sickness; unwellness (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)
invalidism (chronic ill health)
biliousness (gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder)
infection (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)
pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)
affliction (a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health)
harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)
softness; unfitness (poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury))
Antonym:
good health (the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease)
