malady

noundisease

Synonyms for malady

noun disease

Antonyms for malady

Word Origin & History

late 13c., from Old French maladie "sickness, illness, disease" (13c.), from malade "ill" (12c.), from Latin male habitus "doing poorly, feeling sick," literally "ill-conditioned," from male "badly" (see mal-) + habitus, past participle of habere "have, hold" (see habit). Related: Maladies.

Example Sentences for malady

The surgeon was in constant attendance, but the malady baffled all his skill.

Life, that would fain be a melody, seems here almost a malady.

I look with confidence to her malady as my triumphant vindication.

This was a malady which had not been mentioned at the medical college.

She was wearier now than ever before, for there was no cure for her malady.

You asked me just now what malady it was that killed my poor Marguerite.

He was very pale: but that unchanging pallor was the only sign of the malady from which he suffered.

She was attacked by a malady, to which she had nearly fallen a victim.

Bless my afflicted offspring that she may be healed of her malady.

All the days of this pale December were spent by him in going deeper and deeper into his malady.

malady

Synonyms for malady

Antonyms for malady

ailments

complaint

complaints

condition

disease

malady

Synonyms for malady

Antonyms for malady

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