Synonyms for ill
ɪlill

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1. illadverb

   Synonyms:
   illy, nauseous, dope, nauseate, poorly, sick, diseased, sicken, under the weather, bad, mal-, disgusted, unwell

   Antonyms:
   well, good, healthy, fine, wack, hale

2. illadjective

   Evil; wicked (of people).

   Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.

   Synonyms:
   illy, mal-, sicken, sick, dope, unwell, diseased, nauseate, bad, disgusted, under the weather, poorly, nauseous

   Antonyms:
   well, fine, hale, wack, healthy, good

3. illadjective

   Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.

   I wouldn't want you to do me ill.

   Synonyms:
   nauseate, dope, sick, disgusted, nauseous, sicken, unwell, mal-, diseased, bad, poorly, under the weather

   Antonyms:
   healthy, well, hale, wack, good, fine

4. illadjective

   Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.

   He suffered from ill treatment.

   Synonyms:
   poorly, diseased, sicken, unwell, mal-, disgusted, sick, dope, nauseous, under the weather, nauseate, bad

   Antonyms:
   well, hale, healthy, wack, fine, good

5. illadjective

   Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.

   I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.

   Synonyms:
   poorly, dope, sicken, under the weather, bad, diseased, disgusted, sick, mal-, unwell, nauseate, nauseous

   Antonyms:
   hale, fine, good, well, wack, healthy

6. illadjective

   Having an urge to vomit.

   Seeing those pictures made me ill.

   Synonyms:
   bad, nauseous, mal-, poorly, under the weather, nauseate, unwell, diseased, disgusted, sicken, dope, sick

   Antonyms:
   well, wack, fine, healthy, good, hale

7. illadjective

   Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill, comparative iller, superlative illest.]

   Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin Whatchu talkin bout, Willis? — Biggie Smalls, The What, 1994.

   Synonyms:
   nauseate, bad, sick, unwell, mal-, under the weather, disgusted, dope, nauseous, sicken, diseased, poorly

   Antonyms:
   fine, hale, healthy, good, well, wack

8. illadjective

   Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.

   That band was ill.

   Synonyms:
   bad, under the weather, sick, dope, disgusted, unwell, sicken, mal-, nauseous, poorly, diseased, nauseate

   Antonyms:
   good, wack, healthy, fine, well, hale

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1. ill

   Misfortune is adverse fortune or any instance thereof, any untoward event, usually of lingering character or consequences, and such as the sufferer is not deemed directly responsible for; as, he had the misfortune to be born blind. Any considerable disappointment, failure, or misfortune, as regards outward circumstances, as loss of fortune, position, and the like, when long continued or attended with enduring consequences, constitutes adversity. For the loss of friends by death we commonly use affliction or bereavement. Calamity and disaster are used of sudden and severe misfortunes, often overwhelming; ill fortune and ill luck, of lighter troubles and failures. We speak of the misery of the poor, the hardships of the soldier. Affliction, chastening, trial, and tribulation have all an especially religious bearing, suggesting some disciplinary purpose of God with beneficent design. Affliction may be keen and bitter, but brief; tribulation is long and wearing. We speak of an affliction, but rarely of a tribulation, since tribulation is viewed as a continuous process, which may endure for years or for a lifetime; but we speak of our daily trials. Compare CATASTROPHE.

   Synonyms:
   adversity, affliction, bereavement, blow, calamity, chastening, chastisement, disappointment, disaster, distress, failure, hardship, harm, ill fortune, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, ruin, sorrow, stroke, trial, tribulation, trouble, visitation

   Antonyms:
   blessing, boon, comfort, consolation, good fortune, good luck, gratification, happiness, joy, pleasure, prosperity, relief, success, triumph

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1. illnoun

   Synonyms:
   evil, misfortune

2. ill

   Synonyms:
   bad, sick, unwell, indisposed, poorly, out of sorts, diseased

   Antonyms:
   well, healthy, strong, vigorous

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1. ailment, complaint, illadjective

   an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

   Synonyms:
   complaint, charge, ailment

   Antonyms:
   harmless, healed, amicable, good, recovered, asymptomatic, symptomless, propitious, cured, well

2. ill, sickadjective

   affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

   "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

   Synonyms:
   grim, sickish, pale, inauspicious, mad, unhinged, sick(p), sick, disturbed, grisly, wan, fed up(p), gruesome, nauseous, macabre, brainsick, sick of(p), ghastly, demented, queasy, ominous, crazy, tired of(p), unbalanced, disgusted, nauseated, pallid

   Antonyms:
   propitious, cured, harmless, recovered, asymptomatic, well, amicable, healed, symptomless, good

3. illadjective

   resulting in suffering or adversity

   "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good"

   Synonyms:
   ominous, inauspicious, sick

   Antonyms:
   good, cured, propitious, healed, amicable, symptomless, asymptomatic, harmless, well, recovered

4. illadjective

   distressing

   "ill manners"; "of ill repute"

   Synonyms:
   ominous, inauspicious, sick

   Antonyms:
   healed, recovered, amicable, harmless, cured, propitious, good, well, asymptomatic, symptomless

5. illadjective

   indicating hostility or enmity

   "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will"

   Synonyms:
   ominous, inauspicious, sick

   Antonyms:
   asymptomatic, recovered, amicable, good, symptomless, harmless, cured, propitious, healed, well

6. ill, inauspicious, ominousadverb

   presaging ill fortune

   "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"

   Synonyms:
   baleful, threatening, sick, minacious, ominous, inauspicious, untoward, forbidding, minatory, menacing, sinister, adverse, unfortunate

   Antonyms:
   good, propitious, well, symptomless, asymptomatic, healed, cured, amicable, recovered, harmless

7. ill, badly, poorlyadverb

   (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well

   "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"

   Synonyms:
   mischievously, badly, poorly, severely, bad, disadvantageously, gravely, naughtily, seriously

   Antonyms:
   recovered, asymptomatic, cured, amicable, symptomless, healed, good, propitious, well, harmless

8. ill, badlyadverb

   unfavorably or with disapproval

   "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"

   Synonyms:
   mischievously, badly, poorly, severely, bad, disadvantageously, gravely, naughtily, seriously

   Antonyms:
   recovered, symptomless, well, harmless, propitious, asymptomatic, healed, amicable, good, cured

9. illadverb

   with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly

   "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"

   Synonyms:
   badly, poorly

   Antonyms:
   harmless, recovered, amicable, well, propitious, good, healed, asymptomatic, cured, symptomless

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1. illadjective

   Synonyms:
   bad, evil, unfortunate, unfavorable

2. illadjective

   Synonyms:
   wicked, wrong, iniquitous, naughty

3. illadjective

   Synonyms:
   indisposed, ailing, unwell, sick, on the sick list, out of sorts, out of health, laid on the shelf, laid on the back, under the weather

4. illnoun

   Synonyms:
   wickedness, depravity, evil

5. illnoun

   Synonyms:
   misfortune, calamity, misery, pain

6. illadjective

   Synonyms:
   badly, not well

7. illadjective

   Synonyms:
   with difficulty, not easily

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1. illadjective

   Synonyms:
   ailing, sick, unwell, evil, unfavorable, adverse, bad

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1. List of paraphrases for "ill":

   sick, diseased, bad, unwell, lll, patient, ailing, disease, iil, poor, wrong, poorly, badly, illness, sickness, illinois, malate, mala, insane, infirm, evil

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1. Aldous Huxley:

   When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to.

2. Beth Kraft:

   The defendant may be mentally ill, but he is more evil than anything else.

3. John Gross:

   I would almost think the person would be mentally ill to do this, but who knows about that?

4. Judge Jeanine Pirro:

   We don't know that this guy [Fox News Christmas tree arson suspect] was mentally ill, everybody wants to say, 'Oh, they're mentally ill, they're crazy.' I think they're evil … there's a big difference … There's nothing that indicates he's necessarily mentally ill. Maybe he's off his rocker – I wouldn't climb up that tree. But you know, that's just me.

5. Hillary Clinton:

   As other members of families who lost loved ones have said, that’s not what they heard, i don’t hold any ill feeling for someone who in that moment may not fully recall everything that was or wasn’t said.