English > ill health: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | A state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain. |
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| Synonyms | unhealthiness, health problem |
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| Narrower | affliction | A condition of suffering or distress due to ill health |
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| biliousness | gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder |
| dyscrasia | An abnormal or physiologically unbalanced state of the body |
| illness, unwellness, malady, sickness | impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism |
| infection | The pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms |
| injury, hurt, harm, trauma | Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. |
| invalidism | chronic ill health |
| pathology | Any deviation from a healthy or normal / normal condition |
| unfitness, softness | Poor physical condition |
| Broader | pathological state | A physical condition that is caused by disease |
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| Opposite | good health, healthiness | The state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease |
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| Spanish | problema de salud |
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| Catalan | problema de salut |
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