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Synonyms for ill
ɪlill
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illadverb
Synonyms:
illy, nauseous, dope, nauseate, poorly, sick, diseased, sicken, under the weather, bad, mal-, disgusted, unwellilladjective
Evil; wicked (of people).
Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.
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illy, mal-, sicken, sick, dope, unwell, diseased, nauseate, bad, disgusted, under the weather, poorly, nauseousilladjective
Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
I wouldn't want you to do me ill.
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nauseate, dope, sick, disgusted, nauseous, sicken, unwell, mal-, diseased, bad, poorly, under the weatherilladjective
Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
He suffered from ill treatment.
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poorly, diseased, sicken, unwell, mal-, disgusted, sick, dope, nauseous, under the weather, nauseate, badilladjective
Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.
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poorly, dope, sicken, under the weather, bad, diseased, disgusted, sick, mal-, unwell, nauseate, nauseousilladjective
Having an urge to vomit.
Seeing those pictures made me ill.
Synonyms:
bad, nauseous, mal-, poorly, under the weather, nauseate, unwell, diseased, disgusted, sicken, dope, sickilladjective
Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill, comparative iller, superlative illest.]
Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin Whatchu talkin bout, Willis? — Biggie Smalls, The What, 1994.
Synonyms:
nauseate, bad, sick, unwell, mal-, under the weather, disgusted, dope, nauseous, sicken, diseased, poorlyilladjective
Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
That band was ill.
Synonyms:
bad, under the weather, sick, dope, disgusted, unwell, sicken, mal-, nauseous, poorly, diseased, nauseate
English Synonyms and Antonyms
ill
Misfortune is adverse fortune or any instance thereof, any untoward event, usually of lingering character or consequences, and such as the sufferer is not deemed directly responsible for; as, he had the misfortune to be born blind. Any considerable disappointment, failure, or misfortune, as regards outward circumstances, as loss of fortune, position, and the like, when long continued or attended with enduring consequences, constitutes adversity. For the loss of friends by death we commonly use affliction or bereavement. Calamity and disaster are used of sudden and severe misfortunes, often overwhelming; ill fortune and ill luck, of lighter troubles and failures. We speak of the misery of the poor, the hardships of the soldier. Affliction, chastening, trial, and tribulation have all an especially religious bearing, suggesting some disciplinary purpose of God with beneficent design. Affliction may be keen and bitter, but brief; tribulation is long and wearing. We speak of an affliction, but rarely of a tribulation, since tribulation is viewed as a continuous process, which may endure for years or for a lifetime; but we speak of our daily trials. Compare CATASTROPHE.
Synonyms:
adversity, affliction, bereavement, blow, calamity, chastening, chastisement, disappointment, disaster, distress, failure, hardship, harm, ill fortune, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, ruin, sorrow, stroke, trial, tribulation, trouble, visitationAntonyms:
blessing, boon, comfort, consolation, good fortune, good luck, gratification, happiness, joy, pleasure, prosperity, relief, success, triumph
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
illnoun
Synonyms:
evil, misfortuneill
Synonyms:
bad, sick, unwell, indisposed, poorly, out of sorts, diseased
Princeton's WordNet
ailment, complaint, illadjective
an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
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complaint, charge, ailmentAntonyms:
harmless, healed, amicable, good, recovered, asymptomatic, symptomless, propitious, cured, wellill, sickadjective
affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
"ill from the monotony of his suffering"
Synonyms:
grim, sickish, pale, inauspicious, mad, unhinged, sick(p), sick, disturbed, grisly, wan, fed up(p), gruesome, nauseous, macabre, brainsick, sick of(p), ghastly, demented, queasy, ominous, crazy, tired of(p), unbalanced, disgusted, nauseated, pallidAntonyms:
propitious, cured, harmless, recovered, asymptomatic, well, amicable, healed, symptomless, goodilladjective
resulting in suffering or adversity
"ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good"
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ominous, inauspicious, sickAntonyms:
good, cured, propitious, healed, amicable, symptomless, asymptomatic, harmless, well, recoveredilladjective
distressing
"ill manners"; "of ill repute"
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ominous, inauspicious, sickAntonyms:
healed, recovered, amicable, harmless, cured, propitious, good, well, asymptomatic, symptomlessilladjective
indicating hostility or enmity
"you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will"
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ominous, inauspicious, sickAntonyms:
asymptomatic, recovered, amicable, good, symptomless, harmless, cured, propitious, healed, wellill, inauspicious, ominousadverb
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"
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baleful, threatening, sick, minacious, ominous, inauspicious, untoward, forbidding, minatory, menacing, sinister, adverse, unfortunateAntonyms:
good, propitious, well, symptomless, asymptomatic, healed, cured, amicable, recovered, harmlessill, badly, poorlyadverb
(`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
"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"
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mischievously, badly, poorly, severely, bad, disadvantageously, gravely, naughtily, seriouslyAntonyms:
recovered, asymptomatic, cured, amicable, symptomless, healed, good, propitious, well, harmlessill, badlyadverb
unfavorably or with disapproval
"tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
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mischievously, badly, poorly, severely, bad, disadvantageously, gravely, naughtily, seriouslyAntonyms:
recovered, symptomless, well, harmless, propitious, asymptomatic, healed, amicable, good, curedilladverb
with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly
"we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"
Antonyms:
harmless, recovered, amicable, well, propitious, good, healed, asymptomatic, cured, symptomless
Dictionary of English Synonymes
illadjective
Synonyms:
bad, evil, unfortunate, unfavorableilladjective
Synonyms:
wicked, wrong, iniquitous, naughtyilladjective
Synonyms:
indisposed, ailing, unwell, sick, on the sick list, out of sorts, out of health, laid on the shelf, laid on the back, under the weatherillnoun
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wickedness, depravity, evilillnoun
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misfortune, calamity, misery, painilladjective
illadjective
Synonyms:
with difficulty, not easily
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They're going to have to decide, for someone who is mentally ill, if a death sentence is the right punishment, it ends up being a much more personal decision.
So I said, Hey, you know what? You stay here, you have your phone with you and Ill just go to the room, grab your inhaler and pump and come back.
As a police officer for 29 years, I did everything from, dealt with mentally ill people … to negotiating people into letting their hostages go and talking to people out of killing themselves and delivering a baby, and tasering somebody 30 years younger than me through a neighborhood who just committed a burglary, and everything in between, in today's atmosphere, [there is] the expectation that police officers are going to have so much more specialty training, especially when we're talking about mental illness and and utilization of various different kinds of weapons and making sure that we're always exactly within policy and things like that.
This is someone whos likely to exaggerate the dangerous impulses of the president towardbelligerence, John Boltons proclivity to act without thinking, and John Boltons love of conspiracy theories, and Ill, you know, just add one data point to what you were talking about earlier, John Boltons once suggested on Fox News that the Russian hack of the DNC [ Democratic National Committee ] was a false flag operation that had been conducted by the Barack Obama administration.
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Translations for ill
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- مريضArabic
- хворыBelarusian
- боленBulgarian
- malaltCatalan, Valencian
- nemocný, špatnýCzech
- sâlWelsh
- kvalm, syg, dårligDanish
- schlecht, übel, krankGerman
- άρρωστος, άρρωστηGreek
- malsanaEsperanto
- mareado, enfermo, malSpanish
- بیمار, مريضPersian
- mauvaise, écœurée, mal, écœuré, mauvais, maladeFrench
- tinnIrish
- tinnScottish Gaelic
- חוֹלֶהHebrew
- बीमारHindi
- հիվանդ, վատArmenian
- mual, jijik, sakitIndonesian
- maladaIdo
- malatoItalian
- 病気Japanese
- laraJavanese
- სნეული, ავადმყოფიGeorgian
- 앓다, 병들다Korean
- sergantisLithuanian
- sasirdzis, slimsLatvian
- wheoriMāori
- зол, зло, болно, боленMacedonian
- misselijk, ziekDutch
- kvalm, dårlig, sykNorwegian
- problem, chory, zły, krzywda, źlePolish
- doentePortuguese
- rău, bolnavRomanian
- хворый, больнойRussian
- болестан, bolestanSerbo-Croatian
- chorýSlovak
- bolanSlovene
- illamående, illa, sjukSwedish
- ป่วยThai
- kötü, hastaTurkish
- хворийUkrainian
- بیمارUrdu
- bệnhVietnamese
- maläd, malädikVolapük
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