ill
adjective
[ ɪl ]
• suffering from an illness or disease or feeling unwell.
• "he was taken ill with food poisoning"
Similar:
unwell,
sick,
not (very) well,
ailing,
poorly,
sickly,
peaky,
afflicted,
indisposed,
infirm,
liverish,
out of sorts,
not oneself,
not in good shape,
not up to par,
under/below par,
bad,
in a bad way,
bedridden,
invalided,
on the sick list,
valetudinarian,
queasy,
nauseous,
nauseated,
weak,
feeble,
frail,
diseased,
infected,
off colour,
under the weather,
not up to snuff,
laid up,
funny,
peculiar,
iffy,
crummy,
lousy,
rough,
groggy,
green around the gills,
at death's door,
like death warmed up,
ropy,
grotty,
dicky,
wabbit,
crook,
queer,
seedy,
crappy,
• poor in quality.
• "ill judgement dogs the unsuccessful"
Similar:
bad,
poor,
unsatisfactory,
incompetent,
unacceptable,
inadequate,
deficient,
defective,
faulty,
unskilful,
inexpert,
amateurish,
ill
adverb
• badly, wrongly, or imperfectly.
• "the street is dominated by ill-lit shops"
Similar:
poorly,
badly,
imperfectly,
wrongly,
unsuccessfully,
adversely,
unfavourably,
unfortunately,
unluckily,
hard,
inauspiciously,
inadequately,
unsatisfactorily,
insufficiently,
deficiently,
defectively,
negligently,
• only with difficulty; hardly.
• "she could ill afford the cost of new curtains"
Similar:
barely,
scarcely,
hardly,
just,
only just,
just possibly,
narrowly,
with difficulty,
only with effort,
at a push,
ill
noun
• a problem or misfortune.
• "a lengthy work on the ills of society"
Similar:
problems,
troubles,
difficulties,
misfortunes,
strains,
trials,
tribulations,
trials and tribulations,
worries,
anxieties,
concerns,
pain,
suffering,
hardship,
misery,
woe,
affliction,
distress,
disquiet,
malaise,
headaches,
probs,
hassles,
travails,
illnesses,
ill/poor health,
ailments,
disorders,
complaints,
afflictions,
sicknesses,
diseases,
maladies,
infirmities,
indispositions,
infections,
contagions,
Origin:
Middle English (in the senses ‘wicked’, ‘malevolent’, ‘harmful’, and ‘difficult’): from Old Norse illr ‘evil, difficult’, of unknown origin.
Ill.
abbreviation
• Illinois.
I'll
contraction
• I shall; I will.
• "I'll arrange it"
take ill
• become ill, especially suddenly.
