What is another word for poorly?
554 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ pˈʊ͡əli], [ pˈʊəli], [ p_ˈʊə_l_i]Table of Contents
Similar words for poorly:- ill (adjective)
- indisposed (adjective)
- invalid (adjective)
- laid-up (adjective)
- low (adjective)
- not well (adjective)
- peaked (adjective)
- seedy (adjective)
- sick (adjective)
- sickly (adjective)
- unfit (adjective)
- unhealthy (adjective)
- awfully (adverb)
- badly (adverb)
- cheaply (adverb)
- humbly (adverb)
- indifferently (adverb)
- awfully (adverb)
- badly (adverb)
- cheaply (adverb)
- economically (adverb)
- indifferently (adverb)
- ineffectively (adverb)
- insufficiently (adverb)
- poorly (adverb)
- ailing (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Poorly:
adj.
•ill (adjective)- in firmest,
- ill,
- got bug,
- in-firmest,
- dis eased,
- sick as dog,
- more bummed,
- running temperature,
- most bummed,
- off feet,
- off ones feet,
- under weather,
- in-firmer,
- out sorts,
- feeling terrible,
- in firmer,
- dis-eased,
- off one feet.
- more down at the heel,
- most wilted,
- used up,
- most down at the heel,
- more dog-eared,
- un tidier,
- in a bad way,
- un kempt,
- more down-at-the-heel,
- un-tidy,
- most down-at-the-heel,
- over grown,
- un-kemptest,
- more sagging,
- dogeared,
- be-draggled,
- un kemptest,
- be draggled,
- more dogeared,
- un-kempt,
- most dog-eared,
- un tidiest,
- un-tidiest,
- dog-eared,
- most wilting,
- more wilted,
- more wilting,
- un kempter,
- more dog eared,
- un tidy,
- most dog eared,
- most dogeared,
- in bad way,
- down-at-the-heel,
- dog eared,
- down at the heel,
- un-tidier,
- gone to seed,
- most sagging,
- over-grown,
- un-kempter,
- gone seed.
- more hospitalized,
- under medication,
- most hospitalized,
- in curable,
- more suffering,
- most declining,
- more infected,
- dis ordered,
- more qualmish,
- sickest,
- most qualmish,
- dis-ordered,
- in-curable,
- most suffering,
- more declining,
- most infected.
- in congruous,
- in appropriate,
- in-applicable,
- un-meet,
- un suited,
- un likeliest,
- un likely,
- in-adequate,
- more uncool,
- most ill-adapted,
- un meeter,
- more unpromising,
- un-promising,
- more ill adapted,
- un-becoming,
- out element,
- cant make the grade,
- un-suited,
- un meet,
- out place,
- in-expedient,
- most illequipped,
- in adequate,
- un meetest,
- un promising,
- un-congenial,
- most uncool,
- in-felicitous,
- in correct,
- in-appropriate,
- most ill adapted,
- in-effective,
- in harmonious,
- un-meeter,
- more ill-adapted,
- out of element,
- most illadapted,
- un cool,
- ill equipped,
- un suitable,
- un likelier,
- un-likely,
- in expedient,
- illadapted,
- un becoming,
- in effective,
- illequipped,
- more illequipped,
- un-cool,
- Unmeet,
- unmeetest,
- un fit,
- in-harmonious,
- more ill equipped,
- un-meetest,
- most unpromising,
- un-fit,
- in-congruous,
- un-likelier,
- more ill-equipped,
- can't make grade,
- mis taken,
- most ill equipped,
- most ill-equipped,
- ill suited,
- un congenial,
- illsuited,
- in felicitous,
- more illadapted,
- unmeeter,
- in-compatible,
- cant make grade,
- in applicable,
- in compatible,
- un-suitable,
- ill adapted.
adv
•awfully (adverb) •badly (adverb) •cheaply (adverb) •humbly (adverb) •indifferently (adverb)adv.
•awfully (adverb) •badly (adverb) •cheaply (adverb) •economically (adverb) •indifferently (adverb) •ineffectively (adverb)- in effectively,
- in-efficaciously,
- in efficaciously,
- ineffectually,
- in effectually,
- in-effectively,
- in-effectually.
n.
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- embarrassing,
- dire,
- low-grade,
- poor,
- second-rate,
- terrible,
- pitiful,
- disgraceful,
- crudely.
Other synonyms:
•Other relevant words:- invalid,
- atrocious,
- miserably,
- basely,
- weakly,
- obnoxiously,
- amiss,
- Barrenly,
- execrably,
- commonly,
- rough,
- unfortunately,
- queer,
- horrible,
- shoddy,
- Phthisic,
- not oneself,
- trickery,
- harshly,
- caper,
- out of commission,
- Fleeced,
- unsuccessful,
- bare-footed,
- ridiculously,
- punily,
- foully,
- skinny,
- curtly,
- scruffy,
- crippled,
- wretched,
- loathsome,
- Beggared,
- seriously,
- pettily,
- deplorably,
- homeless,
- lamentably,
- myopically,
- amateurishly,
- frail,
- mischievously,
- hazardous,
- scrawny,
- evil,
- nasty,
- spare,
- incompetent,
- despicably,
- loath,
- devilry,
- shortly,
- unjustly,
- pitifully,
- dowerless,
- unluckily,
- miserable,
- valetudinarian,
- unfavorable,
- half,
- off-color,
- unfitly,
- meager,
- sorrowful,
- pitiably,
- abominable,
- money,
- awful,
- unkindly,
- unbearably,
- critical,
- adverse,
- disreputable,
- Sorrily,
- uncomely,
- pathetically,
- Incapably,
- insubstantially,
- bad,
- quarrelsome,
- bereft,
- carelessly,
- Lousily,
- inopportunely,
- remotely,
- strongly,
- roguishness,
- sad,
- inaptly,
- horrid,
- pennilessly,
- afflicted,
- dizzy,
- fragile,
- Arrantly,
- misguided,
- marginally,
- monstrously,
- base,
- guile,
- inaccurately,
- unpleasant,
- indigent,
- devilment,
- harm,
- shortsightedly,
- unacceptably,
- balefulness,
- pale,
- hard,
- weak,
- irascibly,
- fairly,
- painful,
- detriment,
- coldly,
- rascality,
- brusquely,
- atrociously,
- vertiginous,
- Fortuneless,
- awry,
- monstrous,
- squalid,
- Languishing,
- weather,
- Inferiorly,
- destitute,
- unprofessionally,
- out of money,
- nefariously,
- flimsy,
- sparely,
- iii,
- sorry,
- unfavourably,
- weary,
- revolting,
- Unmoneyed,
- uneasy,
- infirm,
- Scantly,
- averagely,
- whimsicality,
- damage,
- disgusting,
- dull,
- hotheadedly,
- scanty,
- hard up,
- stingy,
- wrongly,
- vilely,
- bereaved,
- unwilling,
- lamely,
- queasy,
- moneyless,
- dicky,
- dismally,
- disadvantageously,
- consumptive,
- awkward,
- bedridden,
- unworthy,
- maliciously,
- adequately,
- heinously,
- stripped,
- Paltrily,
- out of health,
- lousy,
- in bad health,
- lightly,
- pernicious,
- Valetudinary,
- unsound,
- inexpertly,
- light-headed,
- dreadful,
- inefficiently,
- severely,
- severe,
- malevolently,
- imperfect,
- injury,
- shabby,
- naughtily,
- diseased,
- mild,
- disadvantage,
- badly off,
- soft,
- mournful,
- run-down,
- poverty-stricken,
- nastily,
- slightly,
- hungrily,
- vile,
- fading away,
- meagrely,
- defective,
- Needily,
- flagrantly,
- infelicitous,
- undexterously,
- hung-over,
- wearied,
- squeamish,
- improperly,
- barely,
- unfitting,
- crude,
- wile,
- wrong,
- gloomy,
- Indigently,
- reduced,
- tired,
- ropy,
- offish,
- measly,
- impecunious,
- rude,
- languidly,
- short,
- evilly,
- confined,
- gaunt,
- Unportioned,
- baldly,
- very much,
- unaptly,
- faint,
- penniless,
- dark,
- incorrectly,
- Cholericly,
- viciously,
- obnoxious,
- disagreeable,
- keen,
- calamitously,
- sadly,
- giddy,
- wrongfully,
- little,
- feeble,
- wasting away,
- morbid,
- incompetently,
- exceptional,
- unfortunate,
- in hospital,
- mischievousness,
- flimsily,
- odiously,
- thinly,
- averse,
- paltry,
- terribly,
- unfairly,
- scurvily,
- invalided,
- disastrously,
- wan,
- gravely,
- par,
- unpropitiously,
- roguery,
- Leanly,
- reluctant,
- thin,
- mischief,
- cholerically,
- shiftiness,
- lame,
- slight,
- repulsive,
- beggarly,
- illy,
- puny,
- inartistically,
- piteously,
- unsatisfactory,
- incomplete,
- jejunely,
- extreme,
- Haplessly,
- unsatisfactorily,
- sordidly,
- forlornly,
- sparingly,
- frigidly,
- grossly,
- adversely,
- nauseous,
- infelicitously,
- fearful,
- contemptibly,
- corrupt,
- frightful,
- frugally,
- hellish,
- inauspiciously,
- chicanery,
- great,
- misbehavior,
- inappropriate.
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Independent
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Adverb
insufficiently, sparsely, improperly, inappropriately, incorrectly, thinly, wrongly, properly, incompletely, barely, loosely, hardly, shortly, sufficiently, inefficiently, marginally, slightly, adequately, correctly, rarely, better, well, faintly, sparingly, pretty, inaccurately, appropriately, negatively, lightly, mildly, largely, modestly, bit, relatively, minimally, personally, imperfectly, infrequently, moderately, less, erroneously.
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Adverb
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Other Related
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Adjective
poor.
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Proper noun, singular
poor.
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Adverb
inadequately, weakly, poor.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Poorly:
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adj.
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Other antonyms:
hardy, healthful, cured, bouncing, tough, stalwart, flourishing, chipper, good, strong, rugged, hearty, flush, wholesome, lusty, conditioned, thriving, robust, recovering, improved, well-conditioned, rehabilitated, blooming, sound, whole, better, able-bodied, hale, mending.
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adv.
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unsatisfactorily
satisfactorily.
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unsatisfactorily