malady

malady

illness; affliction; complaint: He had a chronic malady that sapped all of his energy.; any undesirable or disordered condition: a social malady
Not to be confused with:melody – musical sounds; harmony; tune; song

mal·a·dy

M0053900 (măl′ə-dē)n. pl. mal·a·dies 1. A disease, disorder, or ailment.2. An unwholesome condition: the malady of discontent.

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[Middle English maladie, from Old French, from malade, sick, from Latin male habitus, in poor condition : male, badly; see mel- in Indo-European roots + habitus, past participle of habēre, to hold; see ghabh- in Indo-European roots.]

malady

(ˈmælədɪ) n, pl -dies1. (Pathology) any disease or illness2. any unhealthy, morbid, or desperate condition: a malady of the spirit. [C13: from Old French, from Vulgar Latin male habitus (unattested) in poor condition, from Latin male badly + habitus, from habēre to have]

mal•a•dy

(ˈmæl ə di)

n., pl. -dies. 1. a disorder or disease of the body. 2. any unhealthy condition or disorder. [1200–50; < Old French]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	malady - any unwholesome or desperate condition; "what maladies afflict our nation?"condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
	2.	malady - impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organismillness, sickness, unwellnesscondition - an illness, disease, or other medical problem; "a heart condition"; "a skin condition"health problem, ill health, unhealthiness - a state in which you are unable to function normally and without painague - a fit of shivering or shakingamyloidosis - a disorder characterized by deposit of amyloid in organs or tissues; often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myelomaanuresis, anuria - inability to urinatecatastrophic illness - severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicinescollapse, prostration - an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion; "the commander's prostration demoralized his men"bends, caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism, aeroembolism, air embolism - pain resulting from rapid change in pressurefood poisoning, gastrointestinal disorder - illness caused by poisonous or contaminated foodlead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism - toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the systemdisease - an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioninghypermotility - excessive movement; especially excessive motility of the gastrointestinal tractindisposition - a slight illnessozone sickness - illness that can occur to persons exposed to ozone in high-altitude aircraft; characterized by sleepiness and headache and chest pains and itchinesstoxaemia, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxemia of pregnancy - an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urinegrowth - (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

malady

noun disease, complaint, illness, disorder, sickness, ailment, affliction, infirmity, ill, indisposition, lurgy (informal) He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.

malady

noun1. A pathological condition of mind or body:ailment, complaint, disease, disorder, ill, illness, infirmity, sickness.2. A minor illness, especially one of a temporary nature:ailment, bug, complaint, indisposition.

Translations

疾病

malady

(ˈmӕlədi) – plural ˈmaladies – noun an illness or disease. He is suffering from some strange malady. 疾病 疾病