ill - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

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

Synonyms

• ailment
• complaint
• ill

More generic

• disorder
• upset

More specific

• kinetosis
• motion sickness
• pip

Adjective

presaging ill fortune

Synonyms

• ill
• inauspicious
• ominous

Related

• unpropitious

Adjective

distressing

Synonyms

• ill

Related

• bad

Adjective

resulting in suffering or adversity

Synonyms

• ill

Related

• harmful

Adjective

indicating hostility or enmity

Synonyms

• ill

Related

• hostile

Adjective

affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

Synonyms

• ill
• sick

Related

• afflicted
• aguish
• ailing
• air sick
• airsick
• autistic
• bedfast
• bedrid
• bedridden
• bilious
• bronchitic
• carsick
• consumptive
• convalescent
• delirious
• diabetic
• dizzy
• dyspeptic
• faint
• feverish
• feverous
• funny
• giddy
• gouty
• green
• hallucinating
• indisposed
• laid low
• laid up
• light
• light-headed
• lightheaded
• liverish
• livery
• milk-sick
• nauseated
• nauseous
• palsied
• paralytic
• paralyzed
• paraplegic
• peaked
• poorly
• queasy
• rachitic
• recovering
• rickety
• scrofulous
• seasick
• seedy
• sick
• sick-abed
• sickish
• sickly
• sneezy
• spastic
• stricken
• swooning
• tubercular
• tuberculous
• under the weather
• unhealed
• unwell
• upset
• vertiginous
• woozy

Opposite / Antonyms

• well

Also See

• unfit
• unhealthy

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

Synonyms

• badly
• ill
• poorly

Opposite / Antonyms

• well

with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly

Synonyms

• ill

unfavorably or with disapproval

Synonyms

• badly
• ill

Opposite / Antonyms

• well

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