malady

1. n. Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder. Source: opted

2. n. A moral or mental defect or disorder. Source: opted

3. n. any unwholesome or desperate condition Source: wordnet

4. n. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism Source: wordnet

5. 1. Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder. The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind. Buckminster. 2. A moral or mental defect or disorder. Love's a malady without a cure. Dryden. Syn. -- Disorder; distemper; sickness; ailment; disease; illness. See Disease. Source: webster

6. n:100 n. any unwholesome or desperate condition Source: ecdict

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