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Synonyms for ill
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : il |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪl |
Top 10 synonyms for ill Other synonyms for the word ill
- a wreck
- acrimonious
- adverse
- affection
- antagonistic
- badness
- below par
- bummed
- cantankerous
- complaint
- condition
- cross
- cruelty
- damage
- damaging
- deleterious
- depravity
- destruction
- detrimental
- disrespectful
- disturbing
- down
- down with
- feeling awful
- feeling rotten
- feeling terrible
- foreboding
- foul
- got the bug
- harm
- harmful
- harsh
- hateful
- hostile
- hurt
- hurtful
- ill-mannered
- impertinent
- inauspicious
- indisposed
- indisposition
- infirm
- infirmity
- inimical
- iniquitous
- injurious
- injury
- insult
- laid low
- malady
- malaise
- malevolent
- malice
- malicious
- mischief
- misery
- nocent
- nocuous
- noxious
- off one's feet
- ominous
- on sick list
- out of sorts
- pain
- peaked
- poorly
- queasy
- rotten
- ruinous
- run-down
- running temperature
- sick as a dog
- sickness
- sinister
- suffering
- sullen
- surly
- syndrome
- threatening
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- under the weather
- unfavorable
- unfortunate
- unfriendly
- ungracious
- unhealthy
- unkind
- unlucky
- unpleasantness
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- unwell
- unwholesome
- vile
- wicked
- wickedness
- woe
- woozy
- wrong
Définition of ill
Origin :- c.1200, "morally evil" (other 13c. senses were "malevolent, hurtful, unfortunate, difficult"), from Old Norse illr "ill, bad," of unknown origin. Not related to evil. Main modern sense of "sick, unhealthy, unwell" is first recorded mid-15c., probably related to Old Norse idiom "it is bad to me." Slang inverted sense of "very good, cool" is 1980s. As a noun, "something evil," from mid-13c.
- adj sick
- adj bad, evil
- noun misfortune
- They gently raised him, bolstered him with pillows, and told him he had long been ill.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- But the result was achieved only at a cost which the little party could ill sustain.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- I would have no ill befall her, but I am glad to be rid of her.
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- He was ill, and he desired to speak with his still beloved minister.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- On Monday morning she was ill, and Robin ordered her to stay in bed.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- It was awful to Harriett that her father should be ill, lying there at their mercy.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- And by the spring of eighteen eighty he was upstairs in his room, too ill to be moved.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- The ill consequence of which it is now in your power to prevent.
- Extract from : « A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion » by William Dobein James
- But you are ill, I know you are, you are as white as a sheet.
- Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
- The children of the married would be but ill cared for were there only the married to care for them!
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
Antonyms for ill
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