disease
Meaning of disease
noun
- a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
bacterial meningitis is quite a rare disease
heart disease
Middle English (in the sense ‘lack of ease; inconvenience’): from Old French desaise ‘lack of ease’, from des- (expressing reversal) + aise ‘ease’.
Information about disease
- It is a name.
- The plural form of disease is: diseases.
- Languages in which disease is used:
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Hyphenation of disease
dis-ease
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- disease is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
disease synonyms
Meaning a disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind:
Meaning the state of being ill:
Meaning an infectious disease:
Meaning an illness, typically a minor one:
Meaning a disease or ailment:
Meaning an illness or condition that disrupts normal physical or mental functions:
Meaning an illness or medical condition, especially a relatively minor one:
Meaning a cause of pain or harm:
Meaning an illness or other medical problem:
Meaning mild illness:
Meaning a disturbance of a person's digestive system:
Meaning a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome:
Meaning the malfunction of something such as a machine or a part of the body:
Meaning physical or mental weakness:
Meaning a physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses, or activities:
Meaning a shortcoming, imperfection, or lack:
Meaning an abnormal feature, characteristic, or occurrence:
Meaning a fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague:
Meaning any contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people:
Meaning an evil or destructive practice or phenomenon that is hard to contain or eradicate:
Meaning a malign and corrupting influence that is difficult to eradicate:
Meaning a plant disease, typically one caused by fungi such as mildews, rusts, and smuts:
Meaning an illness caused by a microorganism:
Meaning an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host:
Meaning an unspecified or indeterminate illness:
Meaning a person who is not white:
Meaning a disease spread by close contact:
disease antonyms
Meaning the state of being free from illness or injury:
Translation of disease
- German: Krankheit
- French: maladie
- Italian: malattia, disturbo, disfunzione
- Spanish: enfermedad, afección, mal, dolencia
- Portuguese: doença
Anagrams of disease
Words that rhyme with disease
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