ailing

Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

Adjective

  1. Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.
    • She cared for her ailing brother day in, day out.
    • Based on the successful Class 59 but with a much more modern engine, what was to become the Class 66 was designed to replace much of the company's elderly and ailing locomotive fleet. - 2021 February 24, “Fleet News:...

Forms

more ailing most ailing

Derived

nonailing unailing

Noun

  1. An ailment.
    • 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...

Forms

ailings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of ail