AILMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ailment mean? • AILMENT (noun)
The noun AILMENT has 1 sense:
1. an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
Familiarity information: AILMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AILMENT (noun)
Meaning:
An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
ailment; complaint; ill
Hypernyms ("ailment" is a kind of...):
disorder; upset (condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ailment"):
pip (a minor nonspecific ailment)
kinetosis; motion sickness (the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle)
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