diseased
/dɪˈziːzd
/adjective
1Suffering from disease: diseased trees...
- The only thing I can figure is that they want the diseased bison to infect cattle and thereby harm the beef industry.
- The company has also reduced the height of the development and has introduced a tree planting scheme to replace the diseased trees already felled.
- A City Council report says the trees were diseased meaning they had to be axed before they toppled over.
Synonyms
unhealthy, ill, sick, unwell, ailing, infirm, sickly, unsound, unwholesome, infected, septic, contaminated, blighted, rotten, bad, abnormal
Australian informal crook
archaic peccant
1.1Abnormal and corrupt: I cannot bear your diseased view of mankind...
- She refers to the place as a diseased blight whose continuing existence diminishes the country.
- What the townspeople really suffer from are diseased consciences brought on by severe greed.
- Are they the product of a diseased mind, a sick imagination, a temporary lapse of sanity?
- totemist
- totemistic
- totem pole
- toter
- totes
- to that effect
- to the bad
- to the best of my belief
- to the best of one's ability
- to the best of one's knowledge
- to (the best of) someone's knowledge
- to the bitter end
- to the bone
- to the contrary
- to the core
- to the day
- to the death
- to the effect that
- to the exclusion of
- to the finish
- to the fore
- to the full
- to the gills
- to the gunwales
- to the letter