ailing
adjective
[ ˈeɪlɪŋ ]
• in poor health.
• "I went to see my ailing mother"
Similar:
ill,
unwell,
not well,
sick,
sickly,
poorly,
weak,
indisposed,
in poor/bad health,
infirm,
debilitated,
delicate,
off colour,
languishing,
valetudinarian,
dying,
at death's door,
under the weather,
below par,
laid up,
failing,
in poor condition,
poor,
inadequate,
deficient,
imperfect,
substandard,
flawed,
crappy,
ail
verb
• trouble or afflict (someone) in mind or body.
• "exercise is good for whatever ails one"
Similar:
trouble,
afflict,
pain,
bedevil,
beset,
rack,
curse,
distress,
bother,
worry,
sicken,
be the matter with,
Origin:
Old English eglian, eglan, from egle ‘troublesome’, of Germanic origin; related to Gothic agls ‘disgraceful’.
