malaise

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ma=laise

CIDE DICTIONARY

malaise, n. [F., fr. mal ill + aise ease.].

 An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

malaise, n.
1 a nonspecific bodily discomfort not associated with the development of a disease.
2 a feeling of uneasiness.

Etymology

F f. OF mal bad + aise EASE

THESAURUS

malaise

Schmerz, Slough of Despond, abnormality, aches and pains, acute disease, affection, affliction, agitation, ailment, all-overs, allergic disease, allergy, angst, anguish, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blank despondency, blight, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, boredom, brouhaha, bustle, cankerworm of care, cardiovascular disease, care, cheerlessness, chronic disease, churn, circulatory disease, commotion, complaint, complication, concern, concernment, condition, congenital defect, conturbation, death wish, debility, decrepitude, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, dejectedness, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, despondentness, disability, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, discouragement, disease, disheartenment, dislike, disorder, dispiritedness, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, dissatisfaction, distemper, distress, disturbance, dolor, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, dread, drooping spirits, dullness, ebullition, embroilment, emptiness, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, ennui, epidemic disease, excitement, existential woe, fear, feebleness, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flatness, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, foreboding, forebodingness, fume, functional disease, fungus disease, fuss, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, grimness, handicap, heartlessness, hereditary disease, hopelessness, hubbub, hurly-burly, hurt, hurting, iatrogenic disease, illness, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, inquietude, jitters, joylessness, jumpiness, lack of pleasure, low spirits, lowness, lowness of spirit, maelstrom, malady, misery, misgiving, moil, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, nausea, nerviness, nervosity, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, neurological disease, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, nutritional disease, occupational disease, oppression, organic disease, overanxiety, pain, painfulness, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, perturbation, pessimism, pins and needles, plant disease, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, pucker, respiratory disease, restlessness, rockiness, roil, rout, row, savorlessness, secondary disease, seediness, seethe, seething, self-destructive urge, sickishness, sickliness, sickness, signs, sinking heart, solicitude, spiritlessness, spleen, staleness, stew, stir, strain, suffering, suicidal despair, suspense, swirl, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, taedium vitae, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, tension, the pip, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unhealthiness, unpleasure, unquietness, unrest, unsatisfaction, upset, urogenital disease, vexation, vexation of spirit, virus disease, wasting disease, weariness of life, worm disease, zeal

ROGET THESAURUS

malaise

Pain

N mental suffering, pain, dolor, suffering, sufferance, ache, smart, passion, displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, malaise, inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit, taking, discontent, dejection, weariness, anhedonia, annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation, plague, bore, bother, botheration, stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre, mauvais quart d'heur, care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal, shock, blow, cark, dole, fret, burden, load, concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, heartache, carking cares, heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, heavy affliction, gnawing grief, unhappiness, infelicity, misery, tribulation, wretchedness, desolation, despair, extremity, prostration, depth of misery, nightmare, ephialtes, incubus, pang, anguish, agony, torture, torment, purgatory, hell upon earth, iron age, reign of terror, slough of despond, peck of troubles, ills that flesh is heir to, miseries of human life, unkindest cut of all, sufferer, victim, prey, martyr, object of compassion, wretch, shorn lamb, in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain, suffering, pained, afflicted, worried, displeased, aching, griped, sore, on the rack, in limbo, between hawk and buzzard, uncomfortable, uneasy, ill at ease, in a taking, in a way, disturbed, discontented, out of humor, weary, heavy laden, stricken, crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used, unfortunate, to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded, fey, unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone, cheerless, careworn, concerned, sorry, sorrowing, sorrowful, cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken, in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief, in tears, steeped to the lips in misery, heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded, broken-hearted, in despair, the iron entered into our soul, haeret lateri lethalis arundo, one's heart bleeding, down, thou climbing sorrow, mirth cannot move a soul in agony, nessun maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo fel, sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier th, the Niobe of Nations.

Physical Pain

N physical pain, pain, suffering, sufferance, suffrance, bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain, mental suffering, dolour, ache, aching, smart, shoot, shooting, twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris, hurt, cut, sore, soreness, discomfort, malaise, cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica, tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis, spasm, cramp, nightmare, ephialtes, crick, stitch, thrill, convulsion, throe, throb, pang, colic, kink, sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain, excruciating pain, anguish, agony, torment, torture, rack, cruciation, crucifixion, martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection, in pain, in a state of pain, pained, gouty, podagric, torminous, painful, aching, sore, raw, Special Sensation (1) Touch.