ail
Feel under weather
Ail means to trouble or afflict, usually in reference to health or wellbeing: What ails you?
The word sounds slightly old-fashioned or literary in everyday speech, though it remains common in compounds like ailment.
Things other than people can ail: Whatever ails the economy won't be fixed overnight.
A bodily affliction
- sicknessBodily disorder or disease
- afflictionCause of ongoing distress
- infirmityWeakness from illness or age
- disorderAbsence of organization
condition · syndrome · complaint · indisposition · disease · infection · pathology · chronic
Severe anxiety or suffering
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- woeGreat sorrow or distress
grief · hardship · agony · sorrow · tribulation · adversity · struggle · afflict
malady
A bodily affliction
- sicknessBodily disorder or disease
- afflictionCause of ongoing distress
- infirmityWeakness from illness or age
disorder · condition · syndrome · complaint · indisposition · disease · infection · pathology · chronic · acute
distress
Severe anxiety or suffering
woe · grief · hardship · agony · sorrow · tribulation · adversity · struggle · afflict · beset
nauseous
Feeling urge to vomit
fatigued · pallid · wan · sallow · languid · debilitated · lethargic · aching · throbbing · sore
cure
Treatment that heals
therapy · recover · restore · soothe · alleviate · relieve · mend · salve · balm · tonic
- skin ailmentsDiseases of the epidermis
ailing, ailment, prevailing, ailments, ails, availing, ailed, aileron, entailing