ailment
How many syllables in ailment?
There are 2 syllables in the word ailment.How to pronounce ailment:
Synonyms for ailment:
affliction
ail
attack
bug
complaint
complication
condition
disease
disorder
distemper
fever
ill
illness
infection
infirmity
kinetosis
lurgy
malady
motion sickness
pip
sickness
upset
Antonyms for ailment:
ability
advantage
aid
athleticism
beauty
blessing
bloom
boon
comfort
condition
constitution
energy
fettle
fitness
form
good condition
good health
good physical condition
good shape
good trim
haleness
happiness
hardihood
hardiness
health
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- weekends
- smothered
- sleighing
- greater
- engraved
- crawled
- appalled
- yawning
- unskilled
- traversed
- stagger
- smoky
- repent
- renew
- privet
- Piav
- peril
- nifty
- matured
- matchless
- entrench
- cyclic
- Cupid
- transpire
- shyly
- shoddy
- righteous
- onset
- linker
- kicked
- homer
- concocts
- climbed
- chooses
- tariff
- songbird
- shotgunned
- repelled
- pounded
- motley
- leasing
- disperse
- didnt
- appeased
- wish-wash
- unwashed
- stealing
- received
- obstruct
- hiring
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