Antonyms for maladies


Grammar : Noun
Spell : mal-uh-dee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmæl ə di


Definition of maladies

Origin :
  • late 13c., from Old French maladie "sickness, illness, disease" (13c.), from malade "ill" (12c.), from Latin male habitus "doing poorly, feeling sick," literally "ill-conditioned," from male "badly" (see mal-) + habitus, past participle of habere "have, hold" (see habit). Related: Maladies.
  • noun disease
Example sentences :
  • Gotre and other maladies arising from insufficient diet have disappeared.
  • Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • It by no means follows, that he must wait for one or other of these maladies to carry him off.
  • Extract from : « Nuts and Nutcrackers » by Charles James Lever
  • Was it his fault that the doctors could not cure their maladies?
  • Extract from : « Stories of Comedy » by Various
  • I have gout, asthma, and seven other maladies, but am otherwise very well.
  • Extract from : « How to Succeed » by Orison Swett Marden
  • The most prevalent of these maladies are spinal curvature and myopia.
  • Extract from : « Spontaneous Activity in Education » by Maria Montessori
  • This was my first, and I hope my last, taste of Indian maladies.
  • Extract from : « Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay » by George Otto Trevelyan
  • In Pliny's time it was considered to be effectual for 84 maladies!
  • Extract from : « Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses » by M. G. Kains
  • Which of her maladies might be in the ascendant, he did not know.
  • Extract from : « One of Our Conquerors, Complete » by George Meredith
  • He watched them so carefully that he knew all their maladies.
  • Extract from : « Jack » by Alphonse Daudet
  • Sea-sickness is probably the most distressing of all the maladies that do not kill.
  • Extract from : « Nasby in Exile » by David R. Locke

Synonyms for maladies

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