ill
an often persistent bodily disorder or disease;
a cause for complaining
• Syn:
ailment, complaint
• Derivationally related forms:
ail (for: ailment)
• Hypernyms:
disorder, upset
• Hyponyms:
pip, motion sickness, kinetosis
1. affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function (Freq. 4)
- ill from the monotony of his suffering
• Syn:
sick
• Ant:
well
• Similar to:
afflicted, stricken, aguish, ailing, indisposed,
peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy,
airsick, air sick, carsick, seasick, autistic, bedfast,
bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed, bilious, liverish, livery,
bronchitic, consumptive, convalescent, recovering, delirious, hallucinating,
diabetic, dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous, dyspeptic,
faint, light, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded, feverish,
feverous, funny, gouty, green, laid low, laid up,
milk-sick, nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish,
palsied, paralytic, paralyzed, paraplegic, rickety, rachitic,
rachitic, sneezy, spastic, tubercular, tuberculous,
unhealed, upset
• See Also:
unhealthy, unfit
• Derivationally related forms:
sick (for: sick), sickness (for: sick), illness
2. resulting in suffering or adversity (Freq. 1)
- ill effects
- it's an ill wind that blows no good
• Similar to:
harmful
3. distressing (Freq. 1)
- ill manners
- of ill repute
• Similar to:
bad
4. indicating hostility or enmity
- you certainly did me an ill turn
- ill feelings
- ill will
• Similar to:
hostile
5. presaging ill fortune
- ill omens
- ill predictions
- "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley
- a dead and ominous silence prevailed
- a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government
• Syn:
inauspicious, ominous
• Similar to:
unpropitious
• Derivationally related forms:
omen (for: ominous), inauspiciousness (for: inauspicious)
1. ('ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner;
not well (Freq. 3)
- he was ill prepared
- it ill befits a man to betray old friends
- the car runs badly
- he performed badly on the exam
- the team played poorly
- ill-fitting clothes
- an ill-conceived plan
• Syn:
badly, poorly
• Ant:
well
• Derived from adjective:
poor (for: poorly)
• Usage Domain:
combining form
2. unfavorably or with disapproval
- tried not to speak ill of the dead
- thought badly of him for his lack of concern
• Syn:
badly
• Ant:
well
• Derived from adjective:
unfavorable (for: badly)
3. with difficulty or inconvenience;
scarcely or hardly
- we can ill afford to buy a new car just now
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