Ailing

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Sickness; indisposition.
  • Not well; indisposed.
  • Synonyms Unwell, etc. See sick.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. sick; unhealthy. Opposite of well or healthy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An ailment.
  • verb. Present participle of to ail.
  • adjective. sickly
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. somewhat ill or prone to illness
  • Word Usage
    "But with Martin ailing and the rest of his teammates flailing, he was virtually a one-man show and ran out of gas in the fourth quarter, failing to make a basket."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    healthy  hearty  vigorous  well  
    cross-reference
    diseased  
    Equivalent
    ill  sick  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bad  cacochymic  complaining  down  ill  
    verb-stem
    ail