Ill

//ɪl//

Synonyms for "ill" (300 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (60)

ailment bad badly ailing evil indisposed laid low malevolent mischief ominous sick unfortunate unkind unwell wicked wrong harmful poorly abomination affection

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Adjective(5 words)

sick ailing bad crank crook

Noun(2 words)

ailment complaint

Adverb(1 words)

badly

Strong matches (90)

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Adjective(7 words)

diseased disgusted dope green about the gills icky indisposed infirm

Adverb(1 words)

illy

Adjective(1 words)

inauspicious

Related words (150)

iniquitous injurious injury invalid laid up light headed liverish lowering malady malicious menacing milk sick mischievous misery misfortune mortally ill naughty nauseated not quite right of evil portent

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off color off-color out of sorts outrage pain palsied paralyzed paraplegic peaky peccant peevish poison pollution poor portending portentous queasy rachitic recovering rocky ropy rotten rude scrofulous seedy sick unto death sickish sickness sinful sinister snake in the grass sneezy somber spastic spite spleen surly syndrome taken ill the worst threatening toxin trouble tuberculous ugly unadvantageously unaffectionate unaffectionately unamiable unamiably unbenign unbenignant unbenignantly unbenignly uncompassionate uncompassionately uncompassioned uncordial uncordially under the weather under weather unfavorable unfavourable unfortunately unfriendly ungenial ungenially ungracious ungraciously unhandily unhealed unhealthy unjust unkindly unloving unlovingly unlucky unpleasant unprepossessing unprofitably unpromising unpropitious unrewardingly unskillful unsound unsympathetic unsympathetically unsympathizing untoward upset uselessly venom vertiginous vexation vice vicious wickedness with difficulty woe wrongly

Noun(5 words)

interlibrary loan kj pcp phencyclidine zootie

Adjective(22 words)

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valetudinarian valetudinary

Adjective(2 words)

ominous sick

Adverb(1 words)

poorly

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

More general

2 entries

disorder upset

More specific

6 entries

bedbound bedfast bedridden diseased laid up nauseated

Antonyms

11 entries

being being well fine good health healthy wack well well healthy

Synonyms

47 entries

affliction ailing ailment bad badly badness calamity crabbed depravity diseased disgusted disordered dope evil faulty harmful

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derived

127 entries

be taken ill bird of ill omen do ill fall ill for good or ill house of ill fame ill at ease ill behaved ill blood ill effect ill effects ill fame ill feeling ill health ill humor ill humour

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distinct from

1 entries

healthy

has context

3 entries

hip hop slang slang us

is a

1 entries

river

related to

57 entries

adversity ailing ailment bad bad feeling badly be sick being being sick being unwell blameworthy condition creative cruel diagnosis disease

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similar

109 entries

afflicted aguish ailing air sick airsick autistic bad bedfast bedrid bedridden

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Translations

256 translations across 151 languages.

Acehnese

1 entries

saket adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Afrikaans

1 entries

siek adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Aghwan

1 entries

𐔱𐔰𐕅 adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Aklanon

1 entries

masakit adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Albanian

1 entries

i sëmurë adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Amharic

1 entries

ሕሙም adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

ἄρρωστος adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Arabic

3 entries

عيان adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
مريض adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
مَرِيض adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Armenian

1 entries

հիվանդ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Aromanian

4 entries

hivrit adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
lãndzidzãt adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
lãndzit adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
lãntsid adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Asturian

1 entries

enfermu adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

naxoş adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
xəstə adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Bashkir

3 entries

ауырыу adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
сирле adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
сырхау adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Basque

1 entries

gaixo adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Belarusian

1 entries

хво́ры adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Bengali

1 entries

অসুস্থ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Bislama

1 entries

siki adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Bulgarian

4 entries

бо́лен adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
зле adv (not well)
беда noun (a problem)
болест noun (a physical ailment; an illness)

Burmese

2 entries

နာ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
နေထိုင်မကောင်း adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Catalan

1 entries

malalt adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

نەخۆش adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Chadian Arabic

1 entries

مرضان adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Chickasaw

1 entries

abika adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Chinese

2 entries

бемар adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
бин adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

病 adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

病 adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Chukchi

1 entries

тъытԓьэн adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Church Slavic

1 entries

больнъ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Czech

1 entries

nemocný adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Danish

2 entries

kvalm adj (having an urge to vomit)
syg adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Dutch

4 entries

krank adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
misselijk adj (having an urge to vomit)
ziek adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
zieke adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Elfdalian

2 entries

klien adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
siuok adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Erzya

1 entries

ормав adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Esperanto

1 entries

malsana adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Estonian

1 entries

haige adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Faroese

1 entries

sjúkur adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Finnish

1 entries

sairas adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

French

4 entries

malade adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
s adj (in hip-hop slang: sublime)
écœuré adj (having an urge to vomit)
écœurée adj (having an urge to vomit)

Galician

2 entries

doente adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
enfermo adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Georgian

2 entries

ავადმყოფი adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
სნეული adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

German

4 entries

krank adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
schlecht adj (having an urge to vomit)
siech adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
übel adj (having an urge to vomit)

Gheg Albanian

1 entries

smu adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌿𐌽𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Greek

1 entries

άρρωστος adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Greenlandic

1 entries

napparsimasoq adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

malad adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Hawaiian

1 entries

maʻi adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Hebrew

1 entries

חוֹלֶה adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Hindi

2 entries

बीमार adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
रोगी adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Hungarian

2 entries

beteg adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
rosszul adv (not well)

Icelandic

3 entries

lasinn adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
sjúkur adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
veikur adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Ido

1 entries

malada adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Indonesian

3 entries

jijik adj (having an urge to vomit)
mual adj (having an urge to vomit)
sakit adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Ingrian

1 entries

kippiä adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Interlingua

1 entries

malade adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Iranun

1 entries

masakit adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Irish

2 entries

adhascaideach adj (having an urge to vomit)
tinn adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Italian

1 entries

malato adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Japanese

1 entries

病気 adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Javanese

1 entries

lara adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Kazakh

4 entries

ауру adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
дімкәс adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
науқас adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
сырқат adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Khmer

2 entries

ឈឺ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
ថ្កាត់ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Korean

2 entries

병들다 adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
앓다 adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Kyrgyz

4 entries

ноокас adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
оору adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
оорулуу adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
сыркоолуу adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Ladino

4 entries

hazina adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
hazino adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
hazinu (Monastir) adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
malo (Izmir) adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Lao

3 entries

ຕົກອັບ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
ບໍ່ສະບາຍ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
ເຈັບ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Latgalian

1 entries

navasals adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Latin

3 entries

aeger adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
aegrōtus adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
īnfirmus adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Latvian

2 entries

sasirdzis adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
slims adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Laz

1 entries

ზაბუნი adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Lithuanian

1 entries

sergantis adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Livonian

1 entries

rujā adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

chóry adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Lushootseed

1 entries

ʔəsʔi adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

krank adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Macedonian

3 entries

болен adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
болно adv (not well)
зло noun (a problem)

Malay

2 entries

gering adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
sakit adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Maltese

1 entries

marid adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Mansaka

1 entries

masakit adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Maranao

1 entries

kasakit adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Mingrelian

1 entries

ლეხიანი adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Moksha

1 entries

сяряди adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Mongolian

2 entries

өвчтэй adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
ᠥᠪᠡᠳᠴᠢᠲᠡᠢ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Māori

4 entries

mahaki adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
maki adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
manauhea adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
māuiui adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Norman

1 entries

malade adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

nexweş adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Northern Sami

2 entries

buohcci adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
buozas adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Norwegian

1 entries

kvalm adj (having an urge to vomit)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

sjuk adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
syk adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

sjuk adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Nǀuu

1 entries

ʘʻuiʻiki adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Occitan

1 entries

malaut adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Odia

1 entries

ବେମାରିଆ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Ojibwe

1 entries

aakozi adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Old Armenian

2 entries

խօթ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
հիւանդ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Old English

2 entries

seoc adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
ādliġ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Old Javanese

1 entries

lara adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Old Saxon

1 entries

siok adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

خسته adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Pashto

2 entries

بيمار adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
مريض adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Persian

2 entries

بیمار adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
مریض adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Pijin

1 entries

siki adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

krank adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Polish

4 entries

chory adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
źle adv (not well)
krzywda noun (something damaging)
problem noun (a problem)

Portuguese

1 entries

doente adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Romagnol

1 entries

mêl adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Romani

1 entries

nasvalo adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Romanian

2 entries

abătut adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
bolnav adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Romansch

1 entries

malsaun adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Russian

2 entries

больно́й adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
хво́рый adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Samoan

1 entries

maʻi adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Sango

1 entries

kobêla adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Sanskrit

2 entries

अस्वस्थ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
रुग्ण adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

tinn adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

bȍlestan adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
бо̏лестан adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Sindhi

1 entries

بیمار adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Sinhalese

1 entries

අසනීප adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Slovak

2 entries

chorý adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
nemocný adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Slovene

1 entries

bolan adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Somali

2 entries

bukaan adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
xanuun adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Spanish

4 entries

enfermo adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
mal adj (having an urge to vomit)
mareado adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
mareado adj (having an urge to vomit)

Swahili

1 entries

gonjwa adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Swedish

2 entries

illamående adj (having an urge to vomit)
sjuk adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Tagalog

1 entries

may sakit adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Tahitian

1 entries

maʻi adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Tajik

3 entries

бемор adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
касал adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
мариз adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Talysh

2 entries

noxəş adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
مریض adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Tat

2 entries

bimar adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
naxuş adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Tatar

1 entries

авыру adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Tetum

1 entries

moras adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Thai

2 entries

ป่วย adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
ไม่สบาย adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Tibetan

2 entries

ན adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
ནན་ཏེ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Tigrinya

1 entries

ሕሙም adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Tocharian B

1 entries

tekiññe adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

sik adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Tongan

2 entries

mahaki adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
puke adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Turkish

2 entries

hasta adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
sayrı adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Turkmen

4 entries

hassa adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
kesel adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
näsag adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
syrkaw adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Ukrainian

1 entries

хво́рий adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Unami

1 entries

palsi adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries

chory adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Urdu

3 entries

بیمار adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
علیل adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
مریض adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Uyghur

1 entries

كېسەل adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Uzbek

4 entries

bemor adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
kasal adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
nosogʻ adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
xasta adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Vietnamese

2 entries

bệnh adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
ốm adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Volapük

2 entries

malädik adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
maläd noun (a physical ailment; an illness)

Welsh

1 entries

sâl adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

West-Frisian

1 entries

siik adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

White Hmong

1 entries

mob adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Yiddish

3 entries

געלעגן צו בעט adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
קראַנק adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)
קרענקלעך adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Zhuang

1 entries

bingh adj (in poor health, suffering from a disease)

Sample sentences

39 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I think you'd better take a rest; you look ill.

Source: tatoeba (15990)

You are too ready to speak ill of others.

Source: tatoeba (16338)

I hear that you've been ill.

Source: tatoeba (16635)

Smoking has an ill effect upon health.

Source: tatoeba (19935)

Showing 4 of 39 available sentences.

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