Entry Word: disease

Function: noun

Meaning: an abnormal state that disrupts a plantʼs or animalʼs normal bodily functioning <they caught a rare disease while they were traveling in Africa and were sick for weeks>

Synonyms affection, ailment, bug, complaint, complication, condition, disorder, fever, ill, illness, infirmity, malady, sickness, trouble

Related Words contagion, contagious disease; infection, infectious disease; deficiency disease; attack, bout, fit, spell; debility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, lameness, weakness; malaise, matter; pest, pestilence, plague

Near Antonyms fitness, healthiness, heartiness, robustness, soundness, wholeness, wholesomeness

Antonyms health, wellness