ailing
Meaning of ailing
adjective
- in poor health.
I went to see my ailing mother
the ailing economy
- trouble or afflict (someone) in mind or body.
exercise is good for whatever ails one
Old English eglian, eglan, from egle ‘troublesome’, of Germanic origin; related to Gothic agls ‘disgraceful’.
Information about ailing
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Hyphenation of ailing
ail-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- ailing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
ailing synonyms
Meaning indisposed:
indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, seedy
Meaning suffering from an illness or disease or feeling unwell:
Meaning affected by physical or mental illness:
Meaning lacking the power to perform physically demanding tasks; having little physical strength or energy:
Meaning not physically or mentally strong, especially through age or illness:
Meaning in a very weakened and infirm state:
Meaning susceptible to illness or adverse conditions:
Meaning failing to make progress or be successful:
Meaning showing undue concern about one's health:
Meaning on the point of death:
Meaning a weakness, especially in a person's character; a shortcoming:
Meaning lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society:
Meaning lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose:
Meaning not having enough of a specified quality or ingredient:
Meaning not perfect; faulty or incomplete:
Meaning below the usual or required standard:
Meaning having or characterized by a fundamental weakness or imperfection:
Meaning of extremely poor quality:
Meaning cause distress or anxiety to:
Meaning (of a problem or illness) cause pain or trouble to; affect adversely:
Meaning cause mental or physical pain to:
Meaning (of something bad) cause great and continual trouble to:
Meaning (of a problem or difficulty) trouble (someone or something) persistently:
Meaning cause extreme pain, anguish, or distress to:
Meaning invoke or use a curse against:
Meaning cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain:
Meaning take the trouble to do something:
Meaning feel or cause to feel anxious or troubled about actual or potential problems:
Meaning make (someone) feel disgusted or appalled:
ailing antonyms
Meaning in a good physical or mental condition; in good health:
Meaning having the power to move heavy weights or perform other physically demanding tasks:
Meaning accomplishing a desired aim or result:
Translation of ailing
- Spanish: achacoso
- Italian: indisposto
- French: souffrant
- Portuguese: indisposto
Anagrams of ailing
Words that rhyme with ailing
Ling, Coaling, Ealing, annealing, antiwhaling, appealing, autodialing, avaling, backpedaling, baling, bealing, berascaling, canaling, capitaling, charcoaling, coaling, concealing, congealing, countersealing, craaling, credentialing, crystaling, dealing, descaling, dialing, downscaling, embaling, empaling, ensealing, equaling, exhaling, fealing, foaling, forepaling, gealing, gimbaling, goaling, haling, healing, impaling, inhaling, initialing, instealing, interdealing, intervaling, journaling, keelhaling, kraaling, lateraling, localing
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