Ill
//ɪl//
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The word "ill" can be used as adjective, noun, adjective, adverb, verb, proper noun and adverb.
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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 ill luck ill name ill news spreads apace ill off ill turn ill will ill wind ill-adapted ill-advised ill-assorted ill-begotten ill-behaved ill-being ill-boding ill-bred ill-chosen ill-concealed ill-conceived ill-conditioned ill-considered ill-constructed ill-defined ill-deserved ill-directed ill-disguised ill-disposed ill-doer ill-doing ill-ease ill-equipped ill-famed ill-fated ill-favoured ill-fed ill-fitting ill-formed ill-fortune ill-founded ill-got gains ill-gotten ill-gotten gains ill-gotten gains never prosper ill-groomed ill-grounded ill-informed ill-intentioned ill-judged ill-kempt ill-lit ill-looking ill-mannered ill-matched ill-named ill-natured ill-omened ill-placed ill-posed ill-prepared ill-proportioned ill-qualified ill-received ill-repute ill-scathe ill-seen ill-sorted ill-spent ill-starred ill-suited ill-tempered ill-thought-out ill-thrift ill-timed ill-treat ill-treatment ill-usage ill-use ill-use ill-willed ill-willing ill-wish ill-wisher illbeing illbient illderly illfare illish illlit illness illsome illth illwisher in ill part it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest it's an ill wind it's an ill wind that blows no good it's an ill wind that blows no one any good it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good lie ill in one's mouth louping ill mentally ill moorill nonill quarter-ill shame to him who thinks ill of it speak ill of take ill terminally ill thorter-ill wish someone ill with ill grace woman of ill fame
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Related Terms
adversity ailing ailment bad bad feeling badly be sick being being sick being unwell blameworthy condition creative cruel diagnosis disease disease state distress evil feel feel bad feeling feeling sick fever filling hardly harm harsh human human condition illness imperfectly injury like like sick malevolent misfortune moral pcp phencyclidine poorly poorly sick sick sick unwell sickness simpler state sublime trouble unfit unhealthy unkind unwell vomit well wicked wrongfulness
Similar Terms
afflicted afflicted aguish aguish ailing air sick air sick airsick autistic autistic bad bad bedfast bedrid bedridden bedridden bilious bronchitic bronchitic carsick consumptive consumptive convalescent delirious diabetic diabetic dizzy dyspeptic dyspeptic faint feverish feverous feverous funny funny giddy gouty gouty green green hallucinating hallucinating harmful harmful hostile hostile hungover indisposed laid low laid low laid up laid up light light headed light-headed lightheaded liverish liverish livery milk sick milk-sick nauseated nauseated nauseous palsied palsied paralytic paralyzed paralyzed paraplegic paraplegic peaked poorly queasy rachitic rachitic recovering recovering rickety scrofulous scrofulous seasick seedy sick sick-abed sickish sickly sneezy sneezy spastic spastic stricken swooning tubercular tuberculous tuberculous under the weather under weather unfit unhealed unhealed unhealthy unpropitious unwell upset upset vertiginous vertiginous woozy
Synonym Network
affliction ailing ailment bad badly badness calamity crabbed depravity diseased disgusted disordered dope evil faulty harmful hateful il ill favoured illinois illy indisposed iniquitous malevolent malicious mischief misery misfortune naughty ominous pain peevish poorly sick surly trouble ugly unfavourable unfortunate unfortunately unjust unkind unprepossessing unwell wicked wickedness wrong
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