malady

Noun

Meaning

Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

illness sickness disease disorder ailment distemper unwellness ant plague blight pestilence condition cancer suffering ill
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Antonyms

nostrum pharmaceutics bolus health treatment pharmacology
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Hypernyms

condition status ill health health problem unhealthiness

Hyponyms

growth disease plague diabetes smallpox condition

Phrases with the word

fire malady lead poisoning malady pink malady laryngotracheobronchopulmonary malady muscle malady

Derivatives

maladies

Examples

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. Eric Hoffer

For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty. Ihara Saikaku

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit. Oscar Wilde

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. Amos Bronson Alcott

The malady that is more incurable is folly. Portuguese Proverb

Pay what you owe, you will get well of your malady. Portuguese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

maladroitly maladroitly said maladroitness malafide malaga malagan