Whenever I go abroad, I suffer from jet lag and diarrhea.
Source: tatoeba (22208)
Diarrhea
Synonyms for "diarrhea" (129 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (39)
Related words (64)
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia.
- Sentence evidence is available for diarrhea, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from moby, wiktionary, opengloss, wordnet, and related lexical sources.
Synonym selection checklist
- Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
- Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "diarrhea".
- Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.
When not to replace "diarrhea"
Keep "diarrhea" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
1. Preserve meaning
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "diarrhea" intact in the sentence you are editing.
2. Tune tone
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
3. Re-read context
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
Final fit check
After choosing a replacement for "diarrhea", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "diarrhea" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
5 entriesMore specific
6 entriesacute diarrheabacterial diarrheachronic diarrheaintractable diarrheaparasitic diarrheaviral diarrhea
Collocations
5 entriesacute diarrheaantibiotic associated diarrheachronic diarrheaosmotic diarrheatraveler's diarrhea
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesTranslations
221 translations across 107 languages.
Afrikaans
3 entries- diarree noun (medical condition)
- lopende maag noun (medical condition)
- maagwerk noun (medical condition)
Albanian
4 entries- bark noun (medical condition)
- diare noun (medical condition)
- purth noun (medical condition)
- spirë noun (medical condition)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- διάρροια noun (medical condition)
Arabic
3 entries- إسهال noun (medical condition)
- إِسْهَال noun (medical condition)
- اسهال noun (medical condition)
Armenian
1 entries- լուծ noun (medical condition)
Assamese
1 entries- হাগনি noun (medical condition)
Australian Kriol
1 entries- daiyariya noun (medical condition)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- diarreya noun (medical condition)
- ishal noun (medical condition)
Bashkir
1 entries- эс китеү noun (medical condition)
Belarusian
4 entries- дрыста́чка noun (medical condition)
- дыярэ́я noun (medical condition)
- ля́кса noun (medical condition)
- мыт noun (medical condition)
Bengali
1 entries- উদরাময় noun (medical condition)
Bulgarian
1 entries- диа́рия noun (medical condition)
Burmese
1 entries- ဝမ်းကျ noun (medical condition)
Catalan
2 entries- cagarrines noun (medical condition)
- diarrea noun (medical condition)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- زگ چوون noun (medical condition)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 肚屙 noun (medical condition)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 下痢 noun (medical condition)
- 拉肚子 noun (medical condition)
- 腹瀉 /腹泻 noun (medical condition)
Czech
3 entries- běhavka noun (medical condition)
- průjem noun (medical condition)
- sračka noun (medical condition)
Danish
4 entries- diare noun (medical condition)
- diarre noun (medical condition)
- diarré noun (medical condition)
- diaré noun (medical condition)
Dutch
1 entries- diarree noun (medical condition)
Esperanto
2 entries- diareo noun (medical condition)
- lakso noun (medical condition)
Estonian
1 entries- kõhulahtisus noun (medical condition)
Faroese
4 entries- búklop noun (medical condition)
- gorlop noun (medical condition)
- lívsýki noun (medical condition)
- myrra noun (medical condition)
Finnish
1 entries- ripuli noun (medical condition)
French
2 entries- diarrhée noun (medical condition)
- foire noun (medical condition)
Galician
4 entries- cagarría noun (medical condition)
- descomposición noun (medical condition)
- diarrea noun (medical condition)
- foira noun (medical condition)
Gallo
1 entries- deripette noun (medical condition)
Georgian
4 entries- დიარეა noun (medical condition)
- კუჭაშლილობა noun (medical condition)
- ტრაწი noun (medical condition)
- ფაღარათი noun (medical condition)
German
4 entries- Diarrhoe noun (medical condition)
- Diarrhö noun (medical condition)
- Durchfall noun (medical condition)
- Dünnschiss noun (medical condition)
Gheg Albanian
1 entries- shkul noun (medical condition)
Greek
2 entries- διάρροια noun (medical condition)
- ευκοιλιότητα noun (medical condition)
Gujarati
1 entries- અતિસાર noun (medical condition)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- vant mennen noun (medical condition)
Hebrew
1 entries- שִׁלְשׁוּל noun (medical condition)
Hiligaynon
2 entries- bala-od noun (medical condition)
- luput noun (medical condition)
Hindi
3 entries- अतिसार noun (medical condition)
- डायरिया noun (medical condition)
- दस्त noun (medical condition)
Hungarian
1 entries- hasmenés noun (medical condition)
Icelandic
3 entries- drulla noun (medical condition)
- niðurgangur noun (medical condition)
- ræpa noun (medical condition)
Ido
1 entries- diareo noun (medical condition)
Indonesian
3 entries- diare noun (medical condition)
- menceret noun (medical condition)
- mencret noun (medical condition)
Ingrian
1 entries- syäntauti noun (medical condition)
Irish
3 entries- buinneach noun (medical condition)
- scaoing noun (medical condition)
- scuaid noun (medical condition)
Italian
1 entries- diarrea noun (medical condition)
Japanese
1 entries- 下痢 noun (medical condition)
Jarai
1 entries- čroh noun (medical condition)
Kannada
1 entries- ಅತಿಸಾರ noun (medical condition)
Kashubian
4 entries- biegawica noun (medical condition)
- biegùnka noun (medical condition)
- drzistówka noun (medical condition)
- drzësta noun (medical condition)
Kazakh
3 entries- сатқақ noun (medical condition)
- тышқақ noun (medical condition)
- іш өту noun (medical condition)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- thāikìohshì noun (medical condition)
Khmer
1 entries- អាមាតិសារ noun (medical condition)
Korean
1 entries- 설사 noun (medical condition)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- ич өтүү noun (medical condition)
Ladino
4 entries- diarea noun (medical condition)
- kagalera noun (medical condition)
- salida noun (medical condition)
- shushulera noun (medical condition)
Lao
1 entries- ຖອກທ້ອງ noun (medical condition)
Latin
2 entries- alvī prōfluvium noun (medical condition)
- foria noun (medical condition)
Latvian
1 entries- caureja noun (medical condition)
Lithuanian
1 entries- viduriavimas noun (medical condition)
Macedonian
1 entries- пролив noun (medical condition)
Malay
2 entries- cirit-birit noun (medical condition)
- diarea noun (medical condition)
Malayalam
2 entries- അതിസാരം noun (medical condition)
- വയറിളക്കം noun (medical condition)
Maltese
1 entries- dijarea noun (medical condition)
Marathi
1 entries- अतिसार noun (medical condition)
Mongolian
1 entries- суулгалт noun (medical condition)
Nahuatl
1 entries- amintli noun (medical condition)
Nama
2 entries- xausenǃnāb noun (medical condition)
- ǃnāb noun (medical condition)
Norman
1 entries- diarrhée noun (medical condition)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- zikçûn noun (medical condition)
- îshal noun (medical condition)
Norwegian
1 entries- diaré noun (medical condition)
Nǀuu
1 entries- nǃaasi noun (medical condition)
Occitan
1 entries- diarrèa noun (medical condition)
Old English
1 entries- ūtsiht noun (medical condition)
Old Irish
4 entries- buinne noun (medical condition)
- buinnech noun (medical condition)
- búar noun (medical condition)
- díarria noun (medical condition)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- لینت noun (medical condition)
Pashto
3 entries- اسهال noun (medical condition)
- حيضه noun (medical condition)
- دست noun (medical condition)
Persian
2 entries- اسهال noun (medical condition)
- شکمروش noun (medical condition)
Picard
1 entries- squitte noun (medical condition)
Polish
3 entries- biegunka noun (medical condition)
- rozwolnienie noun (medical condition)
- sraczka noun (medical condition)
Portuguese
2 entries- caganeira noun (medical condition)
- diarreia noun (medical condition)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਦਸਤ noun (medical condition)
Quechua
2 entries- diyarriya noun (medical condition)
- q'icha noun (medical condition)
Romanian
2 entries- diaree noun (medical condition)
- urdinare noun (medical condition)
Romansch
4 entries- burga noun (medical condition)
- diarea noun (medical condition)
- diarrea noun (medical condition)
- foira noun (medical condition)
Russian
3 entries- диаре́я noun (medical condition)
- поно́с noun (medical condition)
- сра́чка noun (medical condition)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- a' bhuineach noun (medical condition)
- cac-shiubhal noun (medical condition)
- spùt noun (medical condition)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dijareja noun (medical condition)
- proliv noun (medical condition)
- proljev noun (medical condition)
- дијареја noun (medical condition)
Silian
3 entries- cacareḍḍu noun (medical condition)
- diarrìa noun (medical condition)
- sciota noun (medical condition)
Slovak
2 entries- hnačka noun (medical condition)
- sračka noun (medical condition)
Slovene
1 entries- driska noun (medical condition)
Southern Altai
1 entries- чычкак noun (medical condition)
Spanish
4 entries- cagadera noun (medical condition)
- churretera noun (medical condition)
- churria noun (medical condition)
- colitis noun (medical condition)
Swahili
1 entries- harisha noun (medical condition)
Swedish
1 entries- diarré noun (medical condition)
Tagalog
3 entries- bululos noun (medical condition)
- pagtatae noun (medical condition)
- talasok noun (medical condition)
Tamil
2 entries- பேதி noun (medical condition)
- வயிற்றுப்போக்கு noun (medical condition)
Tatar
1 entries- эч китү noun (medical condition)
Telugu
1 entries- అతిసారం noun (medical condition)
Thai
3 entries- ท้องร่วง noun (medical condition)
- ท้องเดิน noun (medical condition)
- ท้องเสีย noun (medical condition)
Tibetan
1 entries- བཤལ་ནད noun (medical condition)
Tok Pisin
2 entries- dairia noun (medical condition)
- pekpek wara noun (medical condition)
Turkish
1 entries- ishal noun (medical condition)
Ukrainian
4 entries- бігу́нка noun (medical condition)
- діаре́я noun (medical condition)
- проно́с noun (medical condition)
- різа́чка noun (medical condition)
Urdu
2 entries- اسہال noun (medical condition)
- دست noun (medical condition)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئىچ سۈرۈش noun (medical condition)
Uzbek
2 entries- ich ketish noun (medical condition)
- ichburugʻ noun (medical condition)
Vietnamese
2 entries- tiêu chảy noun (medical condition)
- ỉa chảy noun (medical condition)
Walloon
1 entries- schite noun (medical condition)
Welsh
1 entries- dolur rhydd noun (medical condition)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Here's some medicine for diarrhea.
Source: tatoeba (25350)
I have a touch of diarrhea.
Source: tatoeba (25351)
I have diarrhea.
Source: tatoeba (25352)
Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "diarrhea"?
Closest matches include abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "diarrhea"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.