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Disordered vs Ailing - What's the difference?

disordered | ailing | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between disordered and ailing

is that disordered is past tense of disorder while ailing is present participle of lang=en.

As adjectives the difference between disordered and ailing

is that disordered is chaotic; without clear order; in a state of disorder while ailing is sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

As a noun ailing is

an ailment.

disordered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (disorder)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Chaotic; without clear order; in a state of disorder.
  • Deranged.
  • * 1919 , :
    • The frenzy which had unsettled the mind of the hermit was by him communicated to his hearers who, sinking into a trance, fell easy victims to the fearful visions of a disordered mind.

    Related terms

    * disorderly * ordered

    ailing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ailment.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

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