malady

The word “malady” has 3 syllables: mal-a-dy

It's pronounced as /ˈmæl.ə.di/


What is synonym and antonym for malady?

In the thesaurus, “malady” has 52 synonyms and 15 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for malady

  • Cancer
  • ache
  • affection
  • affliction
  • ail
  • ailment
  • attack
  • blight
  • bout
  • bug
  • complaint
  • complication
  • condition
  • contagion
  • contagious disease
  • contagium
  • debility
  • decrepitude
  • disability
  • disease
  • disorder
  • distemper
  • distemperature
  • epidemic
  • feebleness
  • fever
  • fit
  • flu
  • frailness
  • ill
  • ill health
  • illness
  • infection
  • infirmity
  • inflammation
  • lameness
  • malaise
  • matter
  • pest
  • pestilence
  • pip
  • plague
  • sickliness
  • sickness
  • spell
  • syndrome
  • trouble
  • unhealthiness
  • unsoundness
  • unwellness
  • virus
  • weakness

Antonyms for malady

  • comfort
  • fettle
  • fitness
  • good health
  • health
  • healthiness
  • heartiness
  • relief
  • robustness
  • shape
  • soundness
  • strength
  • wellness
  • wholeness
  • wholesomeness

Meanings of malady

  • noun
    1. Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
    2. A moral or mental defect or disorder.

Example Sentences

  • The doctor diagnosed her with a rare malady that required immediate treatment.
  • His sudden illness was a result of an underlying malady that had gone unnoticed for years.
  • The kingdom was plagued by a mysterious malady that affected both animals and humans.
  • She struggled with the mental malady for much of her life, seeking help from various professionals.
  • The malady spread quickly throughout the community, causing widespread concern.

On this page you'll find 67 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to malady, such as: Cancer, ache, affection, affliction, ail, ailment, attack.

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Related Words

pain

  • ache
  • advertence
  • advertency
  • afflict
  • affliction
  • aggravation
  • aggrieve
  • agonize
  • agony
  • ail
  • alertness
  • anguish
  • annoy
  • annoyance
  • annoyer
  • anxiety
  • asperity
  • attempt
  • attention
  • backache
  • bellyache
  • bite
  • bitterness
  • bleed
  • bore
  • bother
  • burn
  • care
  • carefulness
  • catch
  • chafe
  • charley horse
  • chasten
  • closeness
  • colic
  • complaint
  • concentration
  • conscientiousness
  • constrain
  • convulse
  • convulsion
  • cramp
  • crick
  • cross
  • crucible
  • cut to the quick
  • damage
  • danger
  • despondency
  • detriment
  • difficulty
  • dint
  • discomfort
  • disquiet
  • distress
  • drag
  • drudgery
  • dutifulness
  • earache
  • effort
  • elbow grease
  • emergency
  • endeavor
  • energy
  • essay
  • exactness
  • exasperate
  • excruciate
  • excruciation
  • exertion
  • expenditure
  • fester
  • fever
  • fling
  • focus
  • force
  • gadfly
  • gall
  • gnawer
  • go
  • grief
  • grieve
  • grind
  • gripe
  • harass
  • harasser
  • hardship
  • harm
  • harrier
  • harrow
  • hassle
  • headache
  • heartache
  • heartbreak
  • heckler
  • heed
  • heedfulness
  • hit where one lives
  • hurt
  • illness
  • inflame
  • inflammation
  • injure
  • injury
  • interrupter
  • interruptor
  • irk
  • irreproachability
  • irreproachableness
  • irritate
  • irritation
  • itch
  • jeopardy
  • joylessness
  • labor
  • laceration
  • malady
  • malaise
  • martyrdom
  • meticulosity
  • meticulousness
  • might
  • mindfulness
  • misery
  • molester
  • muscle
  • nag
  • nick
  • nudnick
  • nudnik
  • nuisance
  • observance
  • observation
  • pain in the neck
  • painstaking
  • pang
  • paroxysm
  • particularity
  • pass
  • persecutor
  • pest
  • pinch
  • plague
  • pound
  • power
  • precision
  • prick
  • puissance
  • punctiliousness
  • punish
  • rack
  • responsibility
  • rigor
  • rile
  • sadden
  • sadness
  • scrupulousness
  • shock
  • shoot
  • shot
  • sickness
  • slog
  • smart
  • smarting
  • sore
  • soreness
  • sorrow
  • spasm
  • stab
  • sting
  • stitch
  • stomachache
  • strain
  • stress
  • suffer
  • sufferance
  • suffering
  • sweat
  • swell
  • swelling
  • tease
  • teaser
  • tenderness
  • throb
  • throe
  • tingle
  • toil
  • toothache
  • torment
  • tormenter
  • tormentor
  • torture
  • torturer
  • travail
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • try
  • twinge
  • unhappiness
  • upset
  • vex
  • vexation
  • vigilance
  • watchfulness
  • whack
  • while
  • woe
  • work
  • worry
  • wound
  • wretchedness

malaise

  • affection
  • affliction
  • agita
  • agitation
  • ail
  • ailment
  • alarm
  • alarum
  • angst
  • anguish
  • anxiety
  • anxiousness
  • apprehension
  • apprehensiveness
  • attack
  • blue devils
  • blues
  • bout
  • bug
  • care
  • cold feet
  • complaint
  • complication
  • compunction
  • concern
  • concernment
  • condition
  • consternation
  • debilitation
  • debility
  • decrepitude
  • depression
  • desolation
  • despair
  • desperateness
  • desperation
  • despond
  • despondence
  • despondency
  • discomfort
  • discomposure
  • disconsolateness
  • disease
  • disfunction
  • dismay
  • disorder
  • dispiritedness
  • disquiet
  • disquietude
  • distemper
  • distemperature
  • distraction
  • distress
  • disturbance
  • doldrums
  • dolefulness
  • doubt
  • downheartedness
  • dread
  • dreariness
  • dumps
  • dysfunction
  • edginess
  • enervation
  • fear
  • fearfulness
  • feebleness
  • fever
  • fit
  • foreboding
  • forlornness
  • frailness
  • frailty
  • franticness
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • glumness
  • hand-wringing
  • heartsickness
  • hebetude
  • hypochondria
  • ill
  • illness
  • incertitude
  • indisposition
  • infirmity
  • infirmness
  • invalidism
  • invalidity
  • jitters
  • joylessness
  • jumpiness
  • lameness
  • languor
  • lassitude
  • lethargy
  • listlessness
  • malady
  • matter
  • melancholy
  • miserableness
  • misgiving
  • mopes
  • mournfulness
  • nervosity
  • nervousness
  • oppression
  • pain
  • panic
  • perturbation
  • pip
  • presentiment
  • qualm
  • sadness
  • scruple
  • sickishness
  • sickliness
  • sickness
  • solicitude
  • sorrowfulness
  • strain
  • stress
  • stupor
  • suspense
  • sweat
  • tension
  • torment
  • torpor
  • tremor
  • trouble
  • uncertainty
  • unease
  • uneasiness
  • unhappiness
  • unhealthiness
  • unsoundness
  • upset
  • vexation
  • weakliness
  • weakness
  • worry

pandemic

  • accepted
  • affection
  • affliction
  • ailment
  • all
  • all over
  • all-embracing
  • all-inclusive
  • astronomical
  • blight
  • broad
  • catholic
  • celestial
  • characteristic
  • common
  • communal
  • comprehensive
  • contagion
  • contemporary
  • cosmic
  • cosmopolitan
  • current
  • curse
  • customary
  • diffuse
  • dominant
  • ecumenical
  • empyrean
  • epidemic
  • everyday
  • extensive
  • familiar
  • general
  • generic
  • global
  • household
  • illness
  • infection
  • infirmity
  • majority
  • malady
  • multinational
  • mundane
  • murrain
  • omnipresent
  • overall
  • pervasive
  • pest
  • pestilence
  • plague
  • planetary
  • pop
  • popular
  • predominant
  • preponderant
  • present
  • prevailing
  • prevalent
  • public
  • received
  • regular
  • rife
  • ruling
  • scourge
  • shared
  • sickness
  • stellar
  • sweeping
  • terrestrial
  • total
  • typical
  • ubiquitous
  • unanimous
  • undisputed
  • universal
  • unlimited
  • unrestricted
  • usual
  • well-known
  • whole
  • widespread
  • worldly
  • worldwide

illnesses

  • affections
  • affliction
  • ailing
  • ailment
  • ailments
  • ails
  • attack
  • attacks
  • bouts
  • breakdown
  • bug
  • bugs
  • collapse
  • complaint
  • complaints
  • complications
  • conditions
  • confinement
  • contagia
  • contagions
  • contagious diseases
  • convalescence
  • debilities
  • decrepitudes
  • disability
  • diseasedness
  • diseases
  • disorder
  • disorders
  • distemperatures
  • distempers
  • disturbance
  • dose
  • epidemics
  • failing health
  • fevers
  • fit
  • fits
  • flu
  • ill health
  • ills
  • indisposition
  • infections
  • infirmities
  • infirmity
  • maladies
  • malady
  • malaise
  • malaises
  • matters
  • pestilences
  • pests
  • pips
  • plagues
  • poor health
  • prostration
  • relapse
  • seizure
  • sickness
  • sicknesses
  • spells
  • syndrome
  • troubles
  • unhealth
  • virus
  • weaknesses

ill

  • Cimmerian
  • a wreck
  • abominable
  • abomination
  • abuse
  • abusively
  • abysmal
  • accident
  • achy
  • acrimonious
  • adverse
  • adversity
  • affection
  • afflicted
  • affliction
  • aggressively
  • ail
  • ailing
  • ailment
  • airsick
  • anathema
  • antagonistic
  • assertively
  • atrocious
  • atrociousness
  • atrocity
  • attack
  • awful
  • bad
  • badness
  • baleful
  • balefulness
  • baneful
  • bastard
  • below par
  • black
  • bleak
  • blow
  • body blow
  • bout
  • brutal
  • brutally
  • brutishly
  • bug
  • bum
  • bummed
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • by no means
  • calamity
  • callously
  • cancer
  • canker
  • cantankerous
  • carsick
  • casualty
  • cataclysm
  • catastrophe
  • challenged
  • cheerless
  • cheesy
  • chill
  • circumstance
  • cloudy
  • coarse
  • cold
  • cold-bloodedly
  • comfortless
  • common
  • complaint
  • complication
  • condition
  • contagion
  • contagious
  • contagious disease
  • contagium
  • corruption
  • counterfeit
  • crappy
  • cross
  • cruddy
  • cruelty
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • curse
  • cut-rate
  • damage
  • damaging
  • damnable
  • dangerous
  • dark
  • darkening
  • darkness
  • deadly
  • debauchery
  • debilitated
  • debility
  • decay
  • decidedly
  • decrepit
  • decrepitude
  • defeat
  • defective
  • deficient
  • degeneracy
  • deleterious
  • deplorable
  • depravedness
  • depravity
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • destiny
  • destruction
  • destructive
  • determinedly
  • detestable
  • detrimental
  • devilishness
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • diabolism
  • dim
  • dire
  • direful
  • disabled
  • disappointment
  • disaster
  • disastrous
  • disconsolate
  • discouraging
  • disease
  • diseased
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • disorder
  • disordered
  • disrespectful
  • dissatisfactory
  • distemper
  • distemperature
  • distress
  • disturbing
  • dizzy
  • doom
  • doomy
  • down
  • down with
  • dreadful
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dreich
  • egregious
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • enormity
  • epidemic
  • evil
  • evildoing
  • evilness
  • execrable
  • failure
  • fake
  • fatal
  • fate
  • faulty
  • feeble
  • feebleness
  • feeling awful
  • feeling rotten
  • feeling terrible
  • fever
  • feverish
  • fiendishness
  • firmly
  • fit
  • fizzle
  • flagrant
  • flawed
  • foreboding
  • forlorn
  • foul
  • fragile
  • frail
  • frailness
  • from hunger
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • gnarly
  • godforsaken
  • got the bug
  • gray
  • green
  • grey
  • grimly
  • gross
  • gruffly
  • halt
  • hard
  • hard-heartedly
  • hardly
  • hardship
  • harm
  • harmful
  • harsh
  • harshly
  • hateful
  • hazardous
  • heartlessly
  • heinousness
  • hopeless
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • hostile
  • hurt
  • hurtful
  • hypochondriac
  • hypochondriacal
  • ill-boding
  • ill-fated
  • ill-mannered
  • ill-starred
  • illness
  • immorality
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • impertinent
  • inadequate
  • inauspicious
  • incapacitated
  • indecency
  • indisposed
  • indisposition
  • infection
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inferior
  • infirm
  • infirmity
  • inhumanely
  • inhumanly
  • inimical
  • iniquitous
  • iniquitousness
  • iniquity
  • injurious
  • injury
  • insensately
  • insensitively
  • insidious
  • insufficient
  • insult
  • invalid
  • jeopardizing
  • junky
  • killer
  • knock
  • lacking
  • laid low
  • lame
  • lameness
  • lesser
  • letdown
  • lethal
  • light-headed
  • lonely
  • lonesome
  • lot
  • lousy
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • lugubrious
  • malady
  • malaise
  • malefaction
  • malevolent
  • malice
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • matter
  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • menacing
  • mercilessly
  • minatory
  • misadventure
  • mischance
  • mischief
  • mischievous
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • misery
  • misfortune
  • mishap
  • morbid
  • morose
  • murky
  • nasty
  • nauseated
  • nauseous
  • near
  • never
  • niggardly
  • no
  • no way
  • nocent
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • none
  • nonsuccess
  • nothing
  • nothing doing
  • noway
  • nowhere
  • nowise
  • noxious
  • obdurately
  • odious
  • off
  • ominous
  • on no account
  • on sick list
  • oppressively
  • out of sorts
  • pain
  • paltry
  • parlous
  • pathetic
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • perversion
  • pervertedness
  • pest
  • pestiferous
  • pestilence
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pip
  • pitilessly
  • plague
  • plutonian
  • poisonous
  • poor
  • poorly
  • portentous
  • portion
  • prejudicial
  • punk
  • qualmish
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • queer
  • queerish
  • reprehensible
  • resolutely
  • risky
  • rot
  • rotten
  • roughly
  • rubbishy
  • ruinous
  • run down
  • run-down
  • running a temperature
  • ruthlessly
  • satanism
  • saturnine
  • savagely
  • scanty
  • scarcely
  • scurrility
  • scurrilous
  • scurrilousness
  • seasick
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • sepulchral
  • setback
  • severely
  • shabby
  • shaky
  • sham
  • shoddy
  • short
  • sick
  • sick as a dog
  • sickened
  • sickish
  • sickliness
  • sickly
  • sickness
  • sin
  • sinfulness
  • sinister
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • sleazy
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrow
  • sour
  • spare
  • spell
  • squalor
  • squeamish
  • star-crossed
  • sternly
  • stiffly
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • strongly
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • suffering
  • sullen
  • sunless
  • surly
  • symptomatic
  • syndrome
  • taboo
  • tabu
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • terrible
  • threatening
  • toughly
  • tragedy
  • trashy
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • troubled
  • tyrannically
  • unacceptable
  • uncharitably
  • under par
  • under the weather
  • unfavorable
  • unfeelingly
  • unfortunate
  • unfriendly
  • ungracious
  • unhappiness
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthiness
  • unhealthy
  • unkind
  • unlucky
  • unmercifully
  • unpleasantness
  • unpromising
  • unpropitious
  • unsafe
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsettled
  • unsound
  • unsoundness
  • unsparingly
  • unspeakable
  • unwell
  • unwellness
  • unwholesome
  • upset
  • useless
  • valueless
  • venomous
  • viciously
  • vile
  • vileness
  • villainous
  • villainy
  • wack
  • wanting
  • weak
  • weakly
  • weakness
  • wicked
  • wickedness
  • woe
  • woozy
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

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