The meaning of DISEASED is affected with or as if with a disease : lacking health or soundness : sickly. How to use diseased in a sentence.

Farmers were dumping or burying the diseased carcasses. The bush looked badly diseased, with black marks on all the leaves.

Deceased can be a noun and adjective and refers to dead people. Diseased can only be an adjective and refers to people who are infected with disease.

Factsheet What does the word diseased mean? There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the word diseased. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

“Diseased” is an adjective created from the noun “disease”, which means illness, caused by a failure of health or by an infection, not by an incident. Consequently, “diseased” is used to describe something …

DISEASED definition: having or affected with disease. See examples of diseased used in a sentence.

Definition of diseased adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

diseased [dɪˈziːzd] ADJ [person, animal, plant] → enfermo; [tissue] → dañado, afectado; [mind] → enfermo, morboso

dis•ease /dɪˈziz/ n. Pathology illness; sickness: [uncountable] Disease may result from infection, deficient nutrition, or environmental factors. [countable] Flu is a contagious disease. [countable] any …

If you say that someone's mind is diseased, you are emphasizing that you think it is not normal or balanced.