ILL as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • an often persistent bodily disorder or disease
   • a cause for complaining
   Synonym(s)
   • ailment (what does ailment mean?)
   • complaint (what does complaint mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) ill is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • disorder (what does disorder mean?)
   • upset (what does upset mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • pip (what does pip mean?)
   • motion sickness (what does motion sickness mean?)
   • kinetosis (what does kinetosis mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • afflict (what does afflict mean?)
   • trouble (what does trouble mean?)
   • ail (what does ail mean?)
   • pain (what does pain mean?)
   • ail (what does ail mean?)

ILL as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • presaging ill-fortune
   Synonym(s)
   • inauspicious (what does inauspicious mean?)
   • ominous (what does ominous mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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
   Similar To
   • unpropitious (what does unpropitious mean?)
2. Meaning
   • distressing
   Usage Example(s)
   • ill manners
   • of ill repute
   Similar To
   • bad (what does bad mean?)
3. Meaning
   • resulting in suffering or adversity
   Usage Example(s)
   • ill effects
   • it’’s an ill wind that blows no good
   Similar To
   • harmful (what does harmful mean?)
4. Meaning
   • indicating hostility or enmity
   Usage Example(s)
   • you certainly did me an ill turn
   • ill feelings
   • ill will
   Similar To
   • hostile (what does hostile mean?)
5. Meaning
   • not in good physical or mental health
   Synonym(s)
   • sick (what does sick mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • ill from the monotony of his suffering
   Antonym(s)
   • well (what does well mean?)
   Similar To
   • afflicted (what does afflicted mean?)
   • stricken (what does stricken mean?)
   • aguish (what does aguish mean?)
   • ailing (what does ailing mean?)
   • indisposed (what does indisposed mean?)
   • peaked(p) (what does peaked(p) mean?)
   • poorly(p) (what does poorly(p) mean?)
   • sickly (what does sickly mean?)
   • unwell (what does unwell mean?)
   • under the weather (what does under the weather mean?)
   • airsick (what does airsick mean?)
   • air sick (what does air sick mean?)
   • carsick (what does carsick mean?)
   • seasick (what does seasick mean?)
   • bedfast (what does bedfast mean?)
   • bedridden (what does bedridden mean?)
   • bedrid (what does bedrid mean?)
   • infirm (what does infirm mean?)
   • sick-abed (what does sick-abed mean?)
   • bilious (what does bilious mean?)
   • liverish (what does liverish mean?)
   • livery (what does livery mean?)
   • bronchitic (what does bronchitic mean?)
   • consumptive (what does consumptive mean?)
   • convalescent (what does convalescent mean?)
   • recovering (what does recovering mean?)
   • delirious (what does delirious mean?)
   • hallucinating (what does hallucinating mean?)
   • diabetic (what does diabetic mean?)
   • dizzy (what does dizzy mean?)
   • giddy (what does giddy mean?)
   • woozy (what does woozy mean?)
   • vertiginous (what does vertiginous mean?)
   • dyspeptic (what does dyspeptic mean?)
   • faint (what does faint mean?)
   • light (what does light mean?)
   • swooning (what does swooning mean?)
   • light-headed (what does light-headed mean?)
   • lightheaded (what does lightheaded mean?)
   • feverish (what does feverish mean?)
   • feverous (what does feverous mean?)
   • funny (what does funny mean?)
   • gouty (what does gouty mean?)
   • laid low(p) (what does laid low(p) mean?)
   • stricken (what does stricken mean?)
   • menstruating (what does menstruating mean?)
   • unwell (what does unwell mean?)
   • nauseated (what does nauseated mean?)
   • queasy (what does queasy mean?)
   • sick (what does sick mean?)
   • sickish (what does sickish mean?)
   • scrofulous (what does scrofulous mean?)
   • tubercular (what does tubercular mean?)
   • tuberculous (what does tuberculous mean?)
   • unhealed (what does unhealed mean?)
   • upset (what does upset mean?)
   • green (what does green mean?)
   • laid up(p) (what does laid up(p) mean?)
   • sneezy (what does sneezy mean?)
   • spastic (what does spastic mean?)
   See Also
   • unhealthy (what does unhealthy mean?)
   • unfit (what does unfit mean?)

ILL as ADVERB

1. Meaning
   • (`ill” is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner
   • not well
   Synonym(s)
   • badly (what does badly mean?)
   • poorly (what does poorly mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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
   Antonym(s)
   • well (what does well mean?)
   • good (what does good mean?)
   Pertainym(s)
   • mediocre (what does mediocre mean?)
   • poor (what does poor mean?)
   • second-rate (what does second-rate mean?)
2. Meaning
   • with difficulty or inconvenience
   • scarcely or hardly
   Usage Example(s)
   • we can ill afford to buy a new car just now
3. Meaning
   • unfavorably or with disapproval
   Synonym(s)
   • badly (what does badly mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • tried not to speak ill of the dead
   • thought badly of him for his lack of concern
   Antonym(s)
   • well (what does well mean?)
   Pertainym(s)
   • unfavorable (what does unfavorable mean?)