discuss, v. [debate], [argue], canvass, [agitate], [moot], [deliberate].
discussion, n. [debate], [argument], canvass, [agitation], [consideration], symposium, forensic.
disdain, n. [scorn], contumely, superciliousness, [contempt].
disdainful, a. [contemptuous], [scornful], contumelious, supercilious.
disease, n. [ailment], [disorder], [malady], [complaint], affection, distemper; [plague], [pestilence], [pest]; epidemic, endemic. Antonyms: [health], [vigor]. Associated words: nosology, nosography, etiology, nosogeny, pathology, pathologist, pathological, pathogeny, therapeutics, symptomatology, diagnosis, pathognomonic, diagnostics, semeiology, semeiography, clinic, polyclinic, prognosis, [contagion], [infection], [contagious], [infectious], zoonosology, enantiopathy, loimography, loimology, quarantine, pathogene, [germ], microbe, bacteria, bacillus, incubation.
diseased, a. morbid, [unhealthful].
disembowel, v. eviscerate, [gut].
disembowelment, n. evisceration.
disengage, v. extricate, disembarrass, disentangle, [detach], dissociate.
disfavor, n. [disapproval].