Ill
Meaning of Ill
adjective
- suffering from an illness or disease or feeling unwell.
he was taken ill with food poisoning
a terminally ill patient
even the seriously ill cannot get tests done immediately
- poor in quality.
ill judgement dogs the unsuccessful
- badly, wrongly, or imperfectly.
the street is dominated by ill-lit shops
it ill becomes one so beautiful to be gloomy
- only with difficulty; hardly.
she could ill afford the cost of new curtains
- a problem or misfortune.
a lengthy work on the ills of society
Middle English (in the senses ‘wicked’, ‘malevolent’, ‘harmful’, and ‘difficult’): from Old Norse illr ‘evil, difficult’, of unknown origin.
abbreviation, symbol
Illinois.
contraction, unpunctuated- I shall; I will.
I'll arrange it
Information about Ill
CatalanHyphenation of Ill
Ill
- It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
- Ill is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Ill synonyms
Meaning sick:
Meaning inauspicious:
Meaning ailment:
Meaning badly:
Meaning ill:
Meaning in poor health:
Meaning often ill; in poor health:
Meaning pale from illness or fatigue; sickly:
Meaning (of a problem or illness) cause pain or trouble to; affect adversely:
Meaning slightly unwell:
Meaning not physically or mentally strong, especially through age or illness:
Meaning slightly ill, as though having a disordered liver:
Meaning (of a person) unwell:
Meaning confined to bed by sickness or old age:
Meaning remove (someone) from active service in the armed forces because of injury or illness:
Meaning showing undue concern about one's health:
Meaning nauseous; feeling sick:
Meaning affected with nausea; feeling inclined to vomit:
Meaning affect with nausea:
Meaning lacking the power to perform physically demanding tasks; having little physical strength or energy:
Meaning lacking physical strength, especially as a result of age or illness:
Meaning (of a person) weak and delicate:
Meaning suffering from disease:
Meaning (of a person, organism, etc.) affected with a disease-causing organism:
Meaning causing laughter or amusement; humorous:
Meaning slightly and indefinably unwell:
Meaning full of uncertainty; doubtful:
Meaning dirty, unpleasant, or of poor quality:
Meaning unwell:
Meaning dazed, weak, or unsteady, especially from illness, intoxication, sleep, or a blow:
Meaning resembling a rope, especially in being long, strong, and fibrous:
Meaning unpleasant and of poor quality:
Meaning a false shirt front:
Meaning exhausted or slightly unwell:
Meaning bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory:
Meaning slightly ill:
Meaning of extremely poor quality:
Meaning lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society:
Meaning not satisfactory; not good enough:
Meaning not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully:
Meaning not satisfactory or allowable:
Meaning lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose:
Meaning not having enough of a specified quality or ingredient:
Meaning imperfect or faulty:
Meaning not working or made correctly; having defects:
Meaning not having or showing skill:
Meaning having or showing a lack of skill or knowledge:
Meaning done in an unskilful or inept way:
Meaning in a flawed or incomplete way:
Meaning in a way that is incorrect or mistaken:
Meaning in a way that fails to accomplish a desired aim or result:
Meaning in a way that prevents success or development; harmfully or unfavourably:
Meaning it is unfortunate that:
Meaning with a great deal of effort:
Meaning in a way that lacks the quality or quantity required; unsatisfactorily:
Meaning to an inadequate degree; not enough:
Meaning only just; almost not:
Meaning scarcely (used to qualify a statement by saying that it is true to an insignificant degree):
Meaning exactly:
Meaning only just; by only a small margin:
Meaning a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome:
Meaning difficulty or problems:
Meaning the state or condition of being difficult:
Meaning bad luck:
Meaning a force tending to pull or stretch something to an extreme or damaging degree:
Meaning a formal examination of evidence by a judge, typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings:
Meaning a cause of great trouble or suffering:
Meaning the state of being anxious and troubled over actual or potential problems:
Meaning a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome:
Meaning anxiety; worry:
Meaning highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury:
Meaning the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship:
Meaning severe suffering or privation:
Meaning a state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort:
Meaning great sorrow or distress (often used hyperbolically):
Meaning a cause of pain or harm:
Meaning extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain:
Meaning a feeling of worry or unease:
Meaning a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or unease whose exact cause is difficult to identify:
Meaning a continuous pain in the head:
Meaning a problem:
Meaning irritating inconvenience:
Meaning engage in painful or laborious effort:
Meaning a disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind:
Meaning an illness, typically a minor one:
Meaning a state of confusion:
Meaning a statement that something is unsatisfactory or unacceptable:
Meaning the state of being ill:
Meaning a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injur:
Meaning a disease or ailment:
Meaning physical or mental weakness:
Meaning mild illness:
Meaning the process of infecting or the state of being infected:
Meaning the communication of disease from one person or organism to another by close contact:
Ill antonyms
Meaning in good health; free or recovered from illness:
Meaning in a good physical or mental condition; in good health:
Meaning to be desired or approved of:
Meaning having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully:
Meaning in a way that fulfils expectations or needs; acceptably:
Meaning without difficulty or effort:
Anagrams of Ill
Words that rhyme with Ill
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