Definition for Ill:

• with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly; " we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"

Synonyms for Ill:

• adj.

  •ailing (adjective)
  • wasting,
  • debilitated,
  • run down,
  • sickly,
  • weak,
  • ill,
  • enfeebled,
  • feeble.
  •bad (adjective)
  • in pain,
  • unkind,
  • noxious.
  •baneful (adjective)
  • cursed,
  • calamitous,
  • contagious,
  • infectious,
  • baneful,
  • poisonous,
  • cancerous.
  •bedridden (adjective)
  • invalid,
  • incapacitated,
  • laid up,
  • flat on one's back,
  • prostrate,
  • disabled.
  •detrimental (adjective)
  • pre-judicial,
  • pre judicial.
  •diseased (adjective)
  • Inflicted,
  • decrepit,
  • handicapped,
  • infected,
  • affected,
  • pestilent,
  • diseased.
  •ill (adjective)
  • damaging,
  • adverse,
  • foul,
  • foreboding,
  • unlucky,
  • ominous,
  • ill-mannered,
  • below par,
  • cross,
  • nocent,
  • sullen,
  • iniquitous,
  • unfortunate,
  • rotten,
  • surly,
  • threatening,
  • wrong,
  • run-down,
  • disturbing,
  • harsh,
  • acrimonious,
  • vile,
  • inauspicious,
  • woozy,
  • malicious,
  • unfriendly,
  • a wreck,
  • off one's feet,
  • impertinent,
  • antagonistic,
  • running temperature,
  • Nocuous,
  • unwholesome,
  • cantankerous,
  • got the bug,
  • out of sorts,
  • Bummed,
  • sinister,
  • feeling terrible,
  • hateful,
  • disrespectful,
  • malevolent,
  • unpropitious,
  • ungracious.
  •ill (at ease) (adjective)
  • fidgety,
  • faltering,
  • awkward,
  • tense,
  • self-conscious,
  • unsettled,
  • discomfited,
  • nervous,
  • disquieted,
  • on edge,
  • unsure,
  • suspicious,
  • unrelaxed,
  • doubtful,
  • restless,
  • edgy,
  • uneasy,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • anxious,
  • hesitant,
  • disturbed.
  •indisposed (adjective)
  • got bug,
  • out action,
  • in-disposed,
  • in disposed.
  •infirm (adjective)
  • in-firmer,
  • most anile,
  • in firmest,
  • in-firm,
  • in securest,
  • more sensile,
  • in-firmest,
  • un stable,
  • more anile,
  • in securer,
  • most sensile,
  • un-substantial,
  • in-securest,
  • in-secure,
  • in secure,
  • more faltering,
  • in-securer,
  • un substantial,
  • most faltering,
  • in firmer,
  • un stabler,
  • un-stabler,
  • un-stablest,
  • un stablest,
  • un-stable.
  •inimical (adjective)
  • Oppugnant,
  • inimicable,
  • ill-disposed,
  • unwelcoming.
  •invalid (adjective)
  • in-valid,
  • in valid.
  •laid-up (adjective)
  • laidup.
  •low (adjective)
  • lower.
  •mischievous (adjective)
  • more exasperating,
  • teasing,
  • illbehaved,
  • more rascal,
  • more dickens,
  • most misbehaving,
  • most ill-behaved,
  • pre-carious,
  • more rascally,
  • mis behaving,
  • pre carious,
  • more misbehaving,
  • ill behaved,
  • most exasperating,
  • most illbehaved,
  • most dickens,
  • impish,
  • most vexing,
  • more ill-behaved,
  • more illbehaved,
  • most ill behaved,
  • ex asperating,
  • mis-behaving,
  • ex-asperating,
  • more ill behaved,
  • most rascally,
  • most rascal,
  • holy terror,
  • more vexing.
  •miserable (adjective)
  • dis-contented,
  • more tortured,
  • most anguished,
  • pained,
  • de solate,
  • on downer,
  • dis contented,
  • more hurting,
  • dis tressed,
  • more suffering,
  • wounded,
  • Racked,
  • more racked,
  • most tormented,
  • most discontented,
  • more tormented,
  • most tortured,
  • most hurting,
  • de-solate,
  • down the mouth,
  • de stroyed,
  • dis-tressed,
  • most agonized,
  • more anguished,
  • de-stroyed,
  • most suffering,
  • most racked,
  • ruthful,
  • down mouth,
  • more agonized.
  •nauseous (adjective)
  • sick as dog,
  • de-testable,
  • dis-tasteful,
  • more seasick,
  • de testable,
  • most seasick,
  • dis tasteful.
  •peaked (adjective)
  • more bilious,
  • peakiest,
  • peakier,
  • most bilious.
  •poorly (adjective)
  • out sorts.
  •queasy (adjective)
  • Qualmish,
  • pukish,
  • green around gills.
  •queer (adjective)
  • qualmiest,
  • qualmier.
  •rocky (adjective)
  • rickety.
  •sick (adjective)
  • in-curable,
  • in curable,
  • more infected,
  • dis-ordered,
  • most hospitalized,
  • more hospitalized,
  • more declining,
  • in bad way,
  • most declining,
  • most infected,
  • under medication,
  • dis ordered,
  • sickest.
  •unadvantageous (adjective)
  • un satisfactory,
  • un-advantageous,
  • un advantageous,
  • un-satisfactory.
  •unfavorable (adjective)
  • illadvised,
  • in-convenient,
  • un-promising,
  • un-seemlier,
  • dis commodious,
  • un timely,
  • un seasonable,
  • un-timeliest,
  • dis advantageous,
  • dis-advantageous,
  • in opportune,
  • un seemliest,
  • un-timely,
  • in-advisable,
  • un-luckier,
  • un promising,
  • un-suited,
  • un-timelier,
  • un seemlier,
  • un luckier,
  • un lucky,
  • more discommodious,
  • un-seasonable,
  • most unpromising,
  • in-expedient,
  • un suited,
  • un luckiest,
  • in-felicitous,
  • un-fortunate,
  • un-favorable,
  • un favorable,
  • un timeliest,
  • in advisable,
  • most discommodious,
  • in expedient,
  • un timelier,
  • un-fit,
  • un-seemliest,
  • un fortunate,
  • in convenient,
  • dis-commodious,
  • in-auspicious,
  • in felicitous,
  • un-lucky,
  • in-opportune,
  • more unpromising,
  • in auspicious,
  • un seemly.
  •unhealthy (adjective)
  • out of shape,
  • in ill health,
  • in a decline,
  • in decline.
  •unpropitious (adjective)
  • un-propitious,
  • un propitious.
  •unsound (adjective)
  • in-substantial,
  • most unbacked,
  • un hinged,
  • more unbacked,
  • de ranged,
  • in sane,
  • un-sounder,
  • un-safer,
  • de-ranged,
  • un soundest,
  • in-sane,
  • un safe,
  • in congruous,
  • un-safe,
  • un-balanced,
  • un-hinged,
  • in substantial,
  • in saner,
  • un safest,
  • un backed,
  • un safer,
  • un-soundest,
  • un sounder,
  • un-sound,
  • not solid,
  • in-congruous,
  • in-saner,
  • un-safest,
  • un-backed,
  • in sanest,
  • in correct,
  • un sound,
  • in accurate.
  •unwell (adjective)
  • not feeling well.
  •upset (adjective)
  • top-pled,
  • most unglued,
  • more amazed,
  • over-turned,
  • dis quieted,
  • more rattled,
  • more unzipped,
  • top pled,
  • more disquieted,
  • more toppled,
  • in disarray,
  • un-zipped,
  • more dismayed,
  • most rattled,
  • most dismayed,
  • most dragged,
  • un zipped,
  • over turned,
  • most unzipped,
  • up-set,
  • most amazed,
  • more ruffled,
  • dis mayed,
  • most toppled,
  • more dragged,
  • un glued,
  • un-settled,
  • more unglued,
  • upsidedown,
  • dis-quieted,
  • more grieved,
  • more tumbled,
  • most tumbled,
  • dis-concerted,
  • un settled,
  • dis concerted,
  • most ruffled,
  • most disquieted,
  • dis-mayed,
  • un-glued,
  • most grieved.
  •worse (adjective)
  • not so good.

• adv.

  •all (adverb)
  • badly.
  •under the weather (adverb)
  • under weather.

• n.

  •Pandora's box (noun)
  • hornet nest,
  • pandora's-box,
  • hornets nest,
  • pandoras-box,
  • pandora box,
  • pandoras box,
  • pandora-box,
  • snake the grass,
  • can worms,
  • snake grass.
  •
  • low-grade,
  • embarrassing,
  • pitiful,
  • terrible,
  • second-rate,
  • disgraceful.
  •
  • wicked,
  • hazardous,
  • risky,
  • ruinous,
  • disastrous,
  • unsafe,
  • perilous.
  •
  • disturb,
  • nuisance,
  • disturbance,
  • trials and tribulations,
  • issue,
  • be unfavorable to,
  • problem,
  • difficulty,
  • baggage,
  • burden.
  •afflicted (noun)
  • afflicted.
  •aguish (noun)
  • aguish.
  •ailment (noun)
  • ailment.
  •airsick (noun)
  • airsick.
  •bane (noun)
  • affliction,
  • cancer,
  • bane,
  • scourge,
  • doom,
  • infection,
  • misfortune,
  • curse,
  • calamity,
  • plague,
  • contagion,
  • poison.
  •bedfast (noun)
  • bedfast.
  •bedrid (noun)
  • bedrid.
  •bronchitic (noun)
  • bronchitic.
  •carsick (noun)
  • carsick.
  •catastrophe (noun)
  • devastation,
  • tragedy,
  • alluvion,
  • hardship,
  • curtains,
  • casualty,
  • reverse,
  • contretemps,
  • termination,
  • finale,
  • adversity,
  • debacle,
  • upshot,
  • fatality,
  • grief,
  • denouement,
  • waterloo,
  • failure,
  • emergency,
  • blow,
  • mischance,
  • wreck,
  • desolation,
  • cataclysm,
  • culmination,
  • mishap,
  • accident,
  • infliction,
  • misadventure,
  • bad news,
  • bad luck,
  • end,
  • disaster,
  • stroke,
  • crash.
  •condition (noun)
  • predicament,
  • predicaments,
  • weakness,
  • temper.
  •consumptive (noun)
  • consumptive.
  •convalescent (noun)
  • convalescent.
  •delirious (noun)
  • delirious.
  •diabetic (noun)
  • diabetic.
  •dizzy (noun)
  • dizzy.
  •drawback (noun)
  • in conveniences,
  • fly the ointment,
  • in-convenience,
  • fly in ointment,
  • in-conveniences,
  • fly ointment.
  •dyspeptic (noun)
  • dyspeptic.
  •evil (noun)
  • criminality,
  • knavery,
  • diabolism,
  • criminalities,
  • sinfulness,
  • vileness,
  • Knaveries,
  • obscenity,
  • infamy,
  • Peccancy,
  • looseness,
  • diabolisms.
  •feverish (noun)
  • feverish.
  •feverous (noun)
  • feverous.
  •funny (noun)
  • funny.
  •giddy (noun)
  • giddy.
  •gouty (noun)
  • gouty.
  •green (noun)
  • green.
  •hallucinating (noun)
  • hallucinating.
  •harm (noun)
  • dis services,
  • marrings,
  • dis-service,
  • wear tear,
  • dis-services,
  • perniciousnesses,
  • noxiousnesses,
  • dis service,
  • banefulnesses,
  • deleteriousnesses.
  •harmful (noun)
  • harmful.
  •hostile (noun)
  • hostile.
  •hurt (noun)
  • dis comforts,
  • dis tress,
  • illtreatment,
  • dis advantages,
  • dis-tress,
  • dis comfort,
  • ill treatment,
  • dis-tresses,
  • dis-advantages,
  • dis-comforts,
  • black blue,
  • dis-advantage,
  • dis advantage,
  • black and blues,
  • black blues,
  • black and blue,
  • ill-treatments,
  • dis tresses,
  • illtreatments,
  • dis-comfort.
  •injury (noun)
  • in-dignity,
  • in-jury,
  • de formation,
  • in dignities,
  • de formations,
  • in juries,
  • in jury,
  • in-justice,
  • in-dignities,
  • in justices,
  • in dignity,
  • de-formation,
  • de-formations,
  • in-juries.
  •light-headed (noun)
  • light-headed.
  •lightheaded (noun)
  • lightheaded.
  •liverish (noun)
  • liverish.
  •livery (noun)
  • livery.
  •menstruating (noun)
  • menstruating.
  •mischief (noun)
  • mis behaviors,
  • mis-conduct,
  • devilments,
  • mis conduct,
  • mis chiefs,
  • mis-doing,
  • mis-chief,
  • mis chief,
  • mis-behaviors,
  • mis behavior,
  • mis-behavior,
  • mis-chiefs,
  • mis conducts,
  • mis-conducts,
  • mis doing,
  • mis-doings,
  • funny businesses,
  • waywardnesses,
  • mis doings.
  •nauseated (noun)
  • nauseated.
  •recovering (noun)
  • recovering.
  •scrofulous (noun)
  • scrofulous.
  •sick-abed (noun)
  • sick-abed.
  •sickish (noun)
  • sickish.
  •sickness (noun)
  • un healths,
  • queasinesses,
  • unhealths,
  • ill healths,
  • un-healths,
  • un wellnesses,
  • un healthfulnesses,
  • un healthfulness,
  • un health,
  • unwellnesses,
  • un-wellnesses,
  • unhealthfulnesses,
  • diseasednesses,
  • un wellness,
  • un-healthfulnesses,
  • un-healthfulness,
  • un-health,
  • un-wellness.
  •sneezy (noun)
  • sneezy.
  •spastic (noun)
  • spastic.
  •stricken (noun)
  • stricken.
  •swooning (noun)
  • swooning.
  •tubercular (noun)
  • tubercular.
  •tuberculous (noun)
  • tuberculous.
  •unhealed (noun)
  • unhealed.
  •vertiginous (noun)
  • vertiginous.
  •vice (noun)
  • maleficence,
  • lubricities,
  • Lubricity,
  • malignance.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • confined,
  • disgusted,
  • deleterious,
  • wobbly,
  • injurious,
  • languid,
  • malady,
  • fragile,
  • disease,
  • mischievous,
  • fevered,
  • shocked.
  •
  • failing,
  • rough,
  • hurtful.
  •
  • critical,
  • woe,
  • illness.
  •
  • terminal.
  •
  • disorder.
  •
  • down,
  • dead.
  •faint
  • faint.

Paraphrases for Ill:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    unwell.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    illand, IIL, harmful, improper, precarious, lousy, inclement, deteriorating, unsatisfactory, problematic, nauseous, wicked, pernicious, unfavourable, difficult, terrible, nonperforming, mistreatment, Deteriorated, inappropriate, damaging, injurious, non-performing, disastrous, satisfactory.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Difficulties, questions.
  • Adverb
    inadequately, hardly, improperly, wrongly, incorrectly, barely, inappropriately, thinly.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    infirm, sick, indisposed, illness, ill-health, unhealthy, sickly, adverse, negative, infected, crazy, deleterious, malicious, weak, ill-treated, undesirable, diseased, uncomfortable, ill-suited, inadequate, feeble, deficient.
  • Proper noun, singular
    sick, illness, diseased, illinois.
  • Adverb
    sick.

Antonyms for Ill:

• adj.

  • all
    well.
  • ill
    good, strong, sound, healthy.
  • ill (at ease)
    comfortable, at ease.
  • Other antonyms:
    improved, capital, banner, middling, advantageous, consolation, par excellence, average, gratifying, fabulous, settled, gratification, prime, fair, blooming, fancy, palliative, sterling, benignant, first-rate, standard, adequate, worthy, suitable, boon, first class, useful, neat, amicable, slick, tolerable, beneficial, heavenly, superior, grand, mean, tip-top, noninfectious, swell, classic, groovy, noble, classical, sensational, conditioned, terrific, secure, marvelous, exceptional, stellar, high-grade, stalwart, rehabilitated, wonderful, minimal, helpful, nonpoisonous, dandy, borderline, superlative, rugged, mending, top, A1, so-so, tough, nifty, superb, perfect, unthreatening, fine, divine, prosperous, sufficient, respectable, nonpolluting, special, unexceptional, nonfatal, nonlethal, choice, premium, noncorrosive, splendid, boss, satisfying, jim-dandy, mediocre, nonvenomous, better, satisfactory, nontoxic, passable, relief, thriving, flourishing, crackerjack, hardy, recovering, decent, great, excellent, chipper, nondestructive, keen, top-notch, acceptable, triumph, supernal.

• n.

  • catastrophe
    good luck, good fortune, miracle, wonder, success, favor.
  • complaint
    health.
  • ill
    privilege, benefit, prosperity, luck, profit, happiness, blessing, fortune.
  • misfortune
    healthiness, cheer, virtue, aid, pleasure, improvement, good health, friendliness, comfort, well-being, right, thoughtfulness, advantage, help, peace, kindness, joy, praise.

Ill Sentence Examples:

• Did you find your father very ill?

• Some one ill, my lady?

Homophones for Ill:

• il.