Ailing Synonyms and Antonyms

āliŋ
Affected or tending to be affected with minor health problems
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. sickly
  2. ill
  3. indisposed
  4. sick
  5. low
  6. mean
  7. feeble
  8. off-color
  9. peaked
  10. rocky
  11. weak
  12. poorly
  13. unwell
  14. under-the-weather
  15. seedy
Antonyms:
  1. healthy
Cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. paining
  2. troubling
  3. upsetting
  4. worrying
  5. faltering
  6. declining
  7. distressing
  8. bothering
  9. afflicting
  10. concerning
  11. affecting
  12. carking
  13. aching
To cause physical or mental pain or uneasiness to; trouble.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. troubling

Words Related to Ailing

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

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  1. health
  2. See syn. study at
  3. beleaguered
  4. debt-ridden

Ailing Sentence Examples

  • Nestorius was already old and ailing and must have died very soon after.

  • He came back to find his father ailing, and in February 1831 he left Cambridge for Somersby, where a few days later Dr George Tennyson died.

  • The Persian campaigns wore out the feeble health of Peter, who had been ailing for some time.

  • Backed by this force he seems to have persuaded the ailing caliph to designate him as his successor.

  • From about 1796 Ampere gave private lessons at Lyons in mathematics, chemistry and languages; and in 1801 he removed to Bourg, as professor of physics and chemistry, leaving his ailing wife and infant son at Lyons.

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