health problem

Questions about health problem

What does health problem mean?

health problem means "a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain".

What is another word for health problem?

Close synonyms include ill health, unhealthiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is health problem a common word?

health problem is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.