ill

1. Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function (synset 302552072)
   "ill from the monotony of his suffering"
   also:

   • unfit - not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition
   • unhealthy - not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind
   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
2. 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
3. Distressing (synset 301131841)
   "ill manners"; "of ill repute"
   similar to: bad - having undesirable or negative qualities
4. 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
5. 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 propitious
   same as: inauspicious, ominous

1. 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 functioning
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: ailment, complaint

1. (`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
   same as: badly, poorly
2. 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
3. With difficulty or inconvenience;
   Scarcely or hardly (synset 400012378)
   "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"

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