Ill

[n] an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
[adv] (`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"
[adv] with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly; "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"
[adv] unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
[adj] 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"
[adj] distressing; "ill manners"; "of ill repute"
[adj] resulting in suffering or adversity; "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good"
[adj] indicating hostility or enmity; "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will"
[adj] not in good physical or mental health; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

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Synonyms

afflicted, aguish, ailing, ailment, airsick, bad, badly, bedfast, bedrid, bedridden, bilious, bronchitic, carsick, complaint, consumptive, convalescent, delirious, diabetic, dizzy, dyspeptic, faint, feverish, feverous, funny, giddy, gouty, green, hallucin

Antonyms

good, well, well

Related Terms

abomination, affection, ailing, ailment, amiss, apocalyptic, atrocity, bad, badly, baleful, bane, baneful, befoulment, below par, black, blight, bodeful, boding, complaint, condition, corruption, criminal, critically ill, crying evil, damage, damaging, da