MALADY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for MALADY?

Need another word that means the same as “malady”? Find 11 synonyms and 30 related words for “malady” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Malady” are: illness, sickness, unwellness, ailment, disorder, complaint, disease, infection, indisposition, affliction, infirmity

Malady as a Noun

Definitions of "Malady" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “malady” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism.
• A disease or ailment.
• A serious problem.
• Any unwholesome or desperate condition.

Synonyms of "Malady" as a noun (11 Words)

affliction	A condition of suffering or distress due to ill health. Poor people in great affliction.
ailment	An illness, typically a minor one. The doctor diagnosed a common stomach ailment.
complaint	A statement that something is unsatisfactory or unacceptable. A letter of complaint.
disease	A particular quality or disposition regarded as adversely affecting a person or group of people. Heart disease.
disorder	A disturbance of the peace or of public order. An improved understanding of mental disorder.
illness	Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism. He died after a long illness.
indisposition	A slight illness. An utter indisposition to do anything whatever.
infection	The invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease. Strict hygiene will limit the risk of infection.
infirmity	The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age. Old age and infirmity come to men and women alike.
sickness	Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism. Botulism causes fodder sickness of horses.
unwellness	Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism.

Usage Examples of "Malady" as a noun

• The nation's maladies.
• An incurable malady.

Associations of "Malady" (30 Words)

ailing	Somewhat ill or prone to illness. I went to see my ailing mother.
ailment	An illness, typically a minor one. The doctor diagnosed a common stomach ailment.
alcoholism	Addiction to the consumption of alcoholic drink; alcohol dependency. He had a long history of depression drug abuse and alcoholism.
asthma	Respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing; usually of allergic origin.
asthmatic	A person who suffers from asthma. The painful gasps of a dying asthmatic.
blight	A state or condition being blighted. The city s high rise social housing had become synonymous with urban blight.
bronchitis	Inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchial tubes.
canker	Become infected with a canker. Secondary infections of canker and coccidiosis.
catching	The act of detecting something catching sight of something. Her enthusiasm is catching.
checkup	A thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person.
chronic	Of a person having a chronic illness. Chronic bronchitis.
constipation	A high level of constraint or restriction. Literary constipation.
consumptive	Relating to the using up of resources. Water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses.
contagious	Easily diffused or spread as from one person to another. A contagious disease.
debilitating	Tending to weaken something. Debilitating back pain.
diagnose	Subject to a medical analysis. Two doctors failed to diagnose a punctured lung.
earache	An ache localized in the middle or inner ear. A child complaining of an earache.
epizootic	An outbreak of an epizootic disease. An epizootic disease.
habitual	Doing something constantly or regularly. A habitual late sleeper.
hemophilia	Congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son.
incurable	A person whose disease is incurable. Even when the sick are incurable they are never untreatable.
infirmity	The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age. Old age and infirmity come to men and women alike.
inveterate	In a habitual and longstanding manner. His inveterate hostility to what he considered to be the reactionary powers.
pathological	Caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition. Pathological laboratory.
pestilence	A pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of. Racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation.
pestilential	Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease. Pestilential fever.
pneumonia	Lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection in which the air sacs fill with pus and may become solid Inflammation may affect both lungs double pneumonia or only one single pneumonia.
transmission	The action or process of transmitting something, or the state of being transmitted. Data transmission.
tuberculosis	Infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages.
viral	An image, video, piece of information, etc. that is circulated rapidly and widely on the internet. The rise of virals in online marketing.