ILL HEALTH

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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)