illness

The word “illness” has 2 syllables: ill-ness

It's pronounced as /ˈɪlnəs/


What is synonym and antonym for illness?

In the thesaurus, “illness” has 71 synonyms and 39 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for illness along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for illness

  • affection
  • affliction
  • ail
  • ailing
  • ailment
  • attack
  • bout
  • breakdown
  • bug
  • collapse
  • complaint
  • complication
  • condition
  • confinement
  • contagion
  • contagious disease
  • contagium
  • convalescence
  • debility
  • decrepitude
  • disability
  • disease
  • diseasedness
  • disfunction
  • disorder
  • distemper
  • distemperature
  • disturbance
  • dose
  • dysfunction
  • epidemic
  • failing health
  • feebleness
  • fever
  • fit
  • flu
  • frailness
  • hypochondria
  • ill
  • ill health
  • indisposition
  • infection
  • infirmity
  • invalidism
  • invalidity
  • lameness
  • malady
  • malaise
  • matter
  • pest
  • pestilence
  • pip
  • plague
  • poor health
  • prostration
  • relapse
  • seizure
  • sickishness
  • sickliness
  • sickness
  • spell
  • syndrome
  • trouble
  • unhealth
  • unhealthiness
  • unsoundness
  • unwellness
  • upset
  • virus
  • weakliness
  • weakness

Antonyms for illness

  • aid
  • bloom
  • comeback
  • convalescence
  • fettle
  • fitness
  • flush
  • flushness
  • good health
  • hardiness
  • healing
  • health
  • healthiness
  • heartiness
  • lustiness
  • mending
  • order
  • rally
  • recovery
  • recuperation
  • rehab
  • rehabilitation
  • robustness
  • ruggedness
  • shape
  • snapback
  • soundness
  • stamina
  • strength
  • toughness
  • vigor
  • vigorousness
  • vitality
  • weal
  • welfare
  • well-being
  • wellness
  • wholeness
  • wholesomeness

Meanings of illness

  • noun
    1. An instance of a disease or poor health.
    2. A state of bad health or disease.

Example Sentences

  • Illness can take a toll on both physical and mental well-being, requiring proper care and attention.
  • The sudden onset of illness left him bedridden and unable to fulfill his daily responsibilities.
  • Despite her illness, she remained determined to maintain a positive outlook and continue pursuing her goals.
  • The doctor prescribed medication to alleviate the symptoms of the illness and promote recovery.
  • The company offers comprehensive health benefits to employees to support them during times of illness.

On this page you'll find 110 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to illness, such as: affection, affliction, aid, ail, ailing, ailment, attack.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

attacks

  • abuse
  • abuses
  • access
  • accesses
  • addresses
  • advance
  • affronts
  • aggress
  • aggression
  • aggressions
  • agitations
  • ailment
  • air raids
  • ambuscades
  • ambush
  • ambushes
  • approaches
  • asperses
  • assail
  • assailing
  • assailment
  • assails
  • assault
  • assaults
  • attempts
  • bad-mouths
  • barrage
  • barrages
  • bash
  • bashes
  • bat
  • batters
  • bean
  • beat
  • beats up on
  • belabors
  • beleaguers
  • belittles
  • belligerence
  • berate
  • berates
  • beset
  • besets
  • besiege
  • besieges
  • biff
  • blackguards
  • blame
  • blasphemes
  • blast
  • blasts
  • blister
  • blitz
  • blitzes
  • blitzkrieg
  • blitzkriegs
  • boff
  • bombard
  • bombardments
  • bombards
  • bombings
  • bombs
  • boot
  • bop
  • bout
  • bouts
  • brain
  • brainstorms
  • breakdown
  • breakdowns
  • breakthroughs
  • buckle down
  • buffets
  • bum-rushes
  • bushwhacks
  • bust
  • calumny
  • cannonades
  • cannons
  • cases
  • castigates
  • censure
  • charge
  • charges
  • chastises
  • chides
  • chop down
  • clip
  • clock
  • club
  • collapses
  • combat
  • combativeness
  • convulsion
  • convulsions
  • cook
  • counter-aggressions
  • counter-assaults
  • counter-attacks
  • counter-strikes
  • counteraggressions
  • counterassaults
  • counterattacks
  • counteroffensives
  • counterstrikes
  • coups de main
  • criticism
  • criticize
  • criticizes
  • curses
  • deal with
  • defilement
  • denigration
  • denunciation
  • descents
  • dirty deed
  • disease
  • disparages
  • dive into
  • drive
  • eclampsias
  • encounter
  • encroachment
  • envelopments
  • envelops
  • excoriates
  • execrates
  • faces
  • failure
  • fit
  • fits
  • flanks
  • flies at
  • foray
  • forays
  • frenzies
  • fulminates
  • fusillades
  • goes at
  • hails
  • harangues
  • harasses
  • harm
  • harries
  • has at
  • hit
  • hurt
  • illness
  • imprecates
  • impugn
  • impugnment
  • incursion
  • incursions
  • infiltrate
  • initiative
  • inroad
  • insults
  • intervention
  • intrusion
  • invade
  • invades
  • invasion
  • invasions
  • irruption
  • jump
  • kick
  • knock block off
  • knock cold
  • knock for a loop
  • lambastes
  • lambasts
  • larrup
  • lay into
  • lay siege to
  • libel
  • libels
  • light into
  • lights into
  • loots
  • malign
  • mobs
  • molest
  • mug
  • mugging
  • mugs
  • nukes
  • offences
  • offense
  • offenses
  • offensive
  • offensives
  • onrush
  • onset
  • onsets
  • onslaught
  • onslaughts
  • outbreak
  • overruns
  • overwhelm
  • pangs
  • paroxysm
  • paroxysms
  • pillages
  • pitches in
  • pitches into
  • plasters
  • plunders
  • plunge into
  • potshots
  • pounce upon
  • presses
  • profanes
  • prostrations
  • pugnacity
  • punch
  • pursues
  • push
  • puts down
  • raid
  • raids
  • rape
  • ravages
  • rebukes
  • recurrences
  • refute
  • relapse
  • relapses
  • reprimands
  • reprove
  • revile
  • reviles
  • robs
  • rounds on
  • rush
  • rushes
  • sacks
  • sails into
  • sallies
  • salvoes
  • salvos
  • savages
  • scathes
  • scolds
  • seizure
  • seizures
  • set to
  • set upon
  • sets at
  • sets on
  • sets upon
  • shoot down
  • sicks
  • sics
  • sieges
  • skirmish
  • slams
  • slander
  • slanders
  • slog
  • slurs
  • soak
  • sorties
  • spasm
  • spasms
  • spell
  • spells
  • stab
  • start in on
  • storm
  • storming
  • storms
  • stretch
  • strike
  • strikes
  • stroke
  • surprises
  • surprizes
  • swarms
  • tackle
  • tackles
  • take the offensive
  • take up
  • takes up
  • tear into
  • tears into
  • throe
  • throes
  • thrust
  • ties into
  • traduces
  • trashes
  • turn on
  • turns
  • undertakes
  • vilification
  • vilifies
  • vilify
  • violation
  • vituperates
  • volley
  • volleys
  • wallop
  • waylays
  • whammies
  • whips
  • whop

badness

  • abuse
  • accursedness
  • affection
  • affliction
  • ailment
  • atrociousness
  • atrocity
  • baseness
  • complaint
  • condition
  • corruption
  • cruelty
  • cursedness
  • damage
  • decadence
  • degeneracy
  • depravedness
  • depravity
  • destruction
  • devilishness
  • diabolicalness
  • disease
  • disorder
  • enormity
  • evil
  • evilness
  • execrableness
  • fiendishness
  • harm
  • heinousness
  • hellishness
  • hideousness
  • hurt
  • illness
  • immorality
  • indisposition
  • infamy
  • infirmity
  • injury
  • insult
  • malady
  • malaise
  • malice
  • mischief
  • misery
  • monstrosity
  • notoriety
  • pain
  • pervertedness
  • sickness
  • sinfulness
  • suffering
  • syndrome
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • unpleasantness
  • vileness
  • wickedness
  • woe
  • wrong

calm

  • affable
  • allay
  • alleviate
  • aloof
  • amiable
  • amicable
  • appease
  • arcadian
  • assuage
  • assured
  • at a standstill
  • at peace
  • balm
  • balmy
  • becalm
  • bland
  • bovine
  • breathless
  • breezeless
  • breezy
  • bucolic
  • calmness
  • carefree
  • casualness
  • centered
  • civil
  • clear
  • clement
  • cloudless
  • collect
  • collected
  • comfort
  • comity
  • compose
  • composed
  • conciliate
  • concord
  • confident
  • consolation
  • contain
  • content
  • contentment
  • control
  • cool
  • cool as cucumber
  • cool it
  • cool out
  • cool-headed
  • coolheaded
  • dead
  • detached
  • devil-may-care
  • disciplined
  • disinterested
  • dispassion
  • dispassionate
  • doldrums
  • dull
  • ease
  • easygoing
  • easygoingness
  • equable
  • equal
  • even
  • even-keeled
  • fair
  • gentle
  • halcyon
  • happy-go-lucky
  • harmonious
  • harmony
  • heartsease
  • hold back
  • hush
  • hushed
  • impassive
  • impassivity
  • imperturbable
  • imperturbation
  • in order
  • inactive
  • indifferent
  • informality
  • inscrutable
  • kind
  • laid-back
  • laid-backness
  • lay
  • lay back
  • level
  • levelheaded
  • limpid
  • listless
  • loosey-goosey
  • low
  • low-key
  • lown
  • lull
  • lullaby
  • mellow
  • mild
  • mildness
  • mitigate
  • moderate
  • mollify
  • motionless
  • muffled
  • mute
  • muted
  • narcotize
  • nerveless
  • neutral
  • noiseless
  • nonchalant
  • pacific
  • pacify
  • pastoral
  • patience
  • patient
  • pause
  • peace
  • peace of mind
  • peaceful
  • peacefulness
  • phlegmatic
  • placate
  • placid
  • placidity
  • pleased
  • poised
  • possessed
  • quell
  • quiescent
  • quiet
  • quieted
  • quieten
  • quietness
  • quietude
  • rainless
  • rally
  • re-collect
  • recollected
  • recover
  • relax
  • relaxed
  • relaxedness
  • relief
  • relieve
  • relieved
  • repose
  • reposeful
  • reposing
  • respite
  • rest
  • restful
  • restfulness
  • restrain
  • restraint
  • rural
  • salve
  • satisfied
  • sedate
  • self-assured
  • self-composed
  • self-contained
  • self-controlled
  • self-possessed
  • serene
  • sereneness
  • serenity
  • settle
  • silence
  • silent
  • simmer down
  • slow
  • smooth
  • sober
  • soft
  • soft pedal
  • solace
  • soothe
  • soothing
  • soothingness
  • soundless
  • speechless
  • steady
  • still
  • stillness
  • stilly
  • stoicism
  • stolid
  • stormless
  • stroke
  • stupefy
  • sunny
  • sunshiny
  • take it easy
  • take the edge off
  • temperate
  • together
  • tranquil
  • tranquility
  • tranquilize
  • tranquilized
  • tranquillity
  • tranquillize
  • tranquillized
  • ultraquiet
  • unconcerned
  • undisturbed
  • unemotional
  • unexcitable
  • unexcited
  • unflappable
  • unimpressed
  • unmoved
  • unperturbed
  • unruffled
  • unshakable
  • unshaken
  • untroubled
  • unworried
  • waveless
  • well-adjusted
  • well-balanced
  • windless
  • wordless

calmness

  • apathy
  • aplomb
  • assurance
  • calm
  • casualness
  • collectedness
  • comfort
  • comity
  • composedness
  • composure
  • concord
  • confidence
  • consolation
  • content
  • contentment
  • cool
  • coolness
  • countenance
  • detachment
  • ease
  • easygoingness
  • equanimity
  • equilibrium
  • harmony
  • heartsease
  • hush
  • impassivity
  • imperturbability
  • indifference
  • informality
  • insensibility
  • laid-backness
  • lull
  • mildness
  • numbness
  • patience
  • pause
  • peace
  • peacefulness
  • phlegm
  • placidity
  • poise
  • quiet
  • quietness
  • quietude
  • relaxedness
  • relief
  • repose
  • respite
  • restfulness
  • sangfroid
  • self-assurance
  • self-assuredness
  • self-composedness
  • self-confidence
  • self-possession
  • self-trust
  • sereneness
  • serenity
  • silence
  • solace
  • soothingness
  • still
  • stillness
  • tranquility
  • tranquillity
  • tranquilness
  • unconcern

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