The doctor said that this ailment is incurable.
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Ailment
//ˈeɪlmənt//
Synonyms for "ailment" (91 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (45)
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Translations
64 translations across 30 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- νόσος noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Arabic
3 entries- اعتِلال noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- مَرَض noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- وَعكَة noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Bikol Central
1 entries- hilang noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Bulgarian
2 entries- болест noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- болка noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- دەرد noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 疾病 noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Danish
3 entries- lidelse noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- svaghed noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- sygdom noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Dutch
1 entries- aandoening noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Esperanto
3 entries- afekcio noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- malsaneto noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- malsano noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Finnish
2 entries- sairaus noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- vaiva noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
French
1 entries- maladie noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Galician
2 entries- doenza noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- enfermidade noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
German
1 entries- Leiden noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Greek
4 entries- αρρώστια noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- ασθένεια noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- νόσος noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- πάθηση noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Ingrian
3 entries- läsy noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- tauti noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- topi noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Irish
1 entries- breoiteacht noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Italian
4 entries- acciacco noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- affezione noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- disturbo noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- indisposizione noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Japanese
1 entries- 病気 noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Kazakh
4 entries- ауру noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- дерт noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- кесел noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- науқас noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Latin
1 entries- morbus noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Occitan
1 entries- malautiá noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Polish
1 entries- dolegliwość noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Portuguese
1 entries- enfermidade noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Romanian
1 entries- indispoziție noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Russian
4 entries- боле́знь noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- недомога́ние noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- неду́г noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- нездоро́вье noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- euslaint noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- galar noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- tinneas noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- trioblaid noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Spanish
4 entries- achaque noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- alifafe noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- dolama noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- dolencia noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Telugu
1 entries- రోగము noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Turkish
2 entries- hastalık noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
- rahatsızlık noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Western Apache
1 entries- kaa naghaa noun (something which ails one; a disease; sickness)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
After receiving treatment for a stomach ailment acquired while traveling overseas, Tom and Mary endured weeks of horrendous abdominal gas from the prescribed antibiotics.
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“This man had every conceivable physical ailment toward the end, yet he never complained,” Lord said, sending his friend off in a note of admiration.
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The doctor, entering the treatment room, asked the patient, "Are you the appendix?" – in so doing, reducing the person to his ailment.
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