2. ache, hurt, smart, tingle; feel ill, feel awful, be unwell; suffer, agonize, labor under, writhe; be the matter with, be bothered by, be affected with, be in pain, be indisposed; decline, weaken, pine, languish, waste away, lose strength, droop, flag, dwindle, peak,
ailing, adj. 1. sick, sickly, sickened, ill; unhealthy, unsound, unwell; diseased, morbid, pathological, poisoned; in a bad way, on the sick list, done for, on the shelf; out of sorts, under the weather, not up to snuff; aching, sore, pained, smarting, hurt, wounded; suffering, agonizing, miserable, down, complaining; delicate, faint, languishing, fading away, wasting away; weak, weakly, feeble, infirm; crippled, lame, paralytic, paralyzed, palsied; asthmatic, Path. phthisic, consumptive, tubercular.
2. indisposed, laid up, bedridden, confined; disordered, out of order, out of commission; invalided, valetudinarian.
3. afflicted, distressed, (of pain, disease, etc.) affected; bothered, annoyed, troubled, irritated; upset, worried, disturbed.
ailment, n. illness, sickness, indisposition, affliction; malady, disorder, complaint, disease, infection, morbidity, Path, affection; invalidism, valetudinarianism; weakness, feebleness, infirmity; pain, hurt, wound; disability, handicap; mental disorder, derangement, neurosis, psychosis, insanity,
aim, v. 1. point, direct, draw or get a bead on, sight, focus, zero in on, beam, prepare to fire; position, mark, peg, level, train.
2. plan, design, propose, purpose, resolve; intend, tend toward, have in mind, have in view, mean. •3. strive toward, struggle toward, drive at, work toward, labor for; steer for, head for, be after, look after, seek; set one's sights, have an eye to, aspire to, head for, affect, hitch one's wagon to a star; endeavor, essay, attempt to reach, seek; want, wish, desire, crave; long for, yearn for. -n. 4. pointing, directing, sighting, focussing, beaming; positioning, marking, pegging, leveling, training.
5. target, mark, bull's-eye, destination.
6. goal, ambition; objective, object, end, determination; purpose, intention, intent, view, point, reason, resolution; design, scheme, plan; hope, dream, wish, desire, desideratum, aspiration; endeavor, undertaking, attempt, effort.
7. inclination, proclivity, tendency, drive, drift, bent; course, direction, bearing.
aimless, adj. 1. purposeless, objectless, pointless, futile, inane, fatuous, to no avail; undirected, rudderless, blind; haphazard, accidental, hit or miss; random, chance, fortuitous, uncalculated, uncalculating.
2. drifting, wandering, stray, straying; unmotivated, uninspired, uninvolved; whimsical, capricious, flighty, frivolous; mercurial, volatile; reckless, careless, wanton.
3. erratic, fitful, desultory, unpredictable; irresolute, indecisive, undecided, unreasoning, unsure, vacillating; irregular, unsteady, wayward, inconstant; changeable, variable, mutable.
air, n. 1. atmosphere, sky, aerospace, heavens, Literary, welkin, the open; ozone, oxygen, ether; breeze, zephyr, whiff, light wind, puff of wind, draft, ventilation.
2. circulation, dissemination, publication, Archaic. divulgation; revelation, publicity, exposure, vent, outlet.
3. climate, feel, aura, impression; appearance, demeanor, mien, semblance, cast, look, complexion, aspect, character; presence, attitude, style, bearing, carriage, deportment, conduct.
4.
airs affectedness, posing, frills, pretense, preten-horrid, horrendous, monstrous; hideous, ghastly, eerie, grisly, gruesome, unspeakable; outrageous, shocking, amazing, startling, surprising,
alarmist, n.scaremonger, Cassandra, voice of doom, SI.Chicken Little, croaker; worrywart, pessimist, gloom and doomer.
albeit, conj.
although, even though, though, even if, notwithstanding that, in spite of the fact that,
album, n.1. portfolio, book, folder, scrapbook, memory book; file, depository, storage, record-keeper, organizer; compilation, catalog, collection, grouping.