Word Meanings - DISEASED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Afflicted with disease. It is my own diseased imagination that torments me. W. Irving. Syn. -- See Morbid.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISEASED)

• Morbid
• Diseased
• unsound
• unhealthy
• sickly
• Sick
• ill
• disordered
• distempered
• indisposed
• weak
• riling
• feeble
• morbid
• nauseated
• disgusted
• corrupt
• impaired
• valetudinarian
• Sickly
• Weak
• diseased
• ailing
• pining
• droop
• ing
• vitiated
• delicate
• tainted
• valetudinary

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISEASED)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to DISEASED)

• MORBIDEZZA
  Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
• PINNIPED
  One of the Pinnipedia; a seal. One of the Pinnipedes.
• PINCPINC
  An African wren warbler. .
• PINCHBECK
  An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• PINNATIFID
  Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.
• PINGUIDINOUS
  Containing fat; fatty.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• PINENCHYMA
  Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• PINEAPPLE
  A tropical plant ; also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.
• VITIATE
  1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• AILMENT
  Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.
• PINNULA
  See PINNULE
• PINNULATED
  Having pinnules.
• PINGUID
  Fat; unctuous; greasy. "Some clays are more pinguid." Mortimer.
• PINUS
  A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced
• SAILBOAT
  A boat propelled by a sail or sails.
• SUNDRILY
  In sundry ways; variously.
• VENTRILOQUY
  See VENTRILOQUISM
• LAMBERT PINE
  The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• UNVAIL
  See UNVEIL
• PAILLON
  A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium.
• HANGNAIL
  A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• CASCARILLA
  A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub ; also, its aromatic bark. Cascarilla bark , the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic,
• SUPINITY
  Supineness. Sir T. Browne.
• SUPPING
  1. The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper. 2. That which is supped; broth. Holland.
• SACRILEGIOUS
  Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n.
• PROPINQUITY
  1. Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity. 2. Nearness in time. Sir T. Browne. 3. Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity. Shak.
• PERILOUS
  1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer.
• PROMISSORILY
  In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• UNWARILY
  In an unwary manner.