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    ILL HEALTH

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A state in which you are unable to function normally and without painplay

    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)

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