ill
Adjective
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Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function (synset 302552072)
"ill from the monotony of his suffering"also:similar to:
- afflicted, stricken - grievously affected especially by disease
- aguish - affected by ague
- ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell - somewhat ill or prone to illness
- air sick, airsick, carsick, seasick - experiencing motion sickness
- autistic - characteristic of or affected with autism
- bedfast, bedrid, bedridden, sick-abed - confined to bed (by illness)
- bilious, liverish, livery - suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
- bronchitic - suffering from or prone to bronchitis
- consumptive - afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis
- convalescent, recovering - returning to health after illness or debility
- delirious, hallucinating - experiencing delirium
- diabetic - suffering from diabetes
- dizzy, giddy, vertiginous, woozy - having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
- dyspeptic - suffering from dyspepsia
- faint, light, light-headed, lightheaded, swooning - weak and likely to lose consciousness
- feverish, feverous - having or affected by a fever
- funny - experiencing odd bodily sensations
- gouty - suffering from gout
- green - looking pale and unhealthy
- laid low, stricken - put out of action (by illness)
- laid up - ill and usually confined
- milk-sick - affected with or related to milk sickness
- nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish - feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
- palsied - affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor
- paralytic, paralyzed - affected with paralysis
- paraplegic - suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord
- rachitic, rickety - affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets
- scrofulous - afflicted with scrofula
- sneezy - inclined to sneeze
- spastic - suffering from spastic paralysis
- tubercular, tuberculous - constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus
- unhealed - not healed
- upset - mildly physically distressed
same as: sick -
Resulting in suffering or adversity (synset 301165811)
"ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good"similar to: harmful - causing or capable of causing harm
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Distressing (synset 301131841)
"ill manners"; "of ill repute"similar to: bad - having undesirable or negative qualities
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Indicating hostility or enmity (synset 301248878)
"you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will"similar to: hostile - characterized by enmity or ill will
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Presaging ill fortune (synset 300179426)
"ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"similar to: unpropitious - not propitioussame as: inauspicious, ominous
Noun
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An often persistent bodily disorder or disease;
A cause for complaining (synset 114078890)is a type of: disorder, upset - a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioningsubtypes:- pip - a minor nonspecific ailment
- kinetosis, motion sickness - the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle
Adverb
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(`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner;
Not well (synset 400011978)"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"domain usage: combining form - a bound form used only in compounds -
Unfavorably or with disapproval (synset 400013698)
"tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"same as: badly
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With difficulty or inconvenience;
Scarcely or hardly (synset 400012378)"we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"
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