ill

The word “ill” has 1 syllable: ill.

It's pronounced as /ɪl/.

What is synonym and antonym for ill?

In the thesaurus, “ill” has 55 synonyms and 95 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for ill along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for ill

abuse
adverse
afflicted
affliction
ailing
ailment
awful
bad
bleak
condition
damaging
dangerous
deficient
detrimental
disastrous
disease
diseased
disorder
evil
fever
hard
harmful
harshly
horrible
illness
infirm
infirmity
lame
lonely
malady
malaise
menacing
misery
misfortune
never
no
ominous
oppressively
pain
poor
poorly
severely
sick
sickness
sinister
suffering
syndrome
terrible
threatening
tragedy
trouble
unacceptable
woe
woozy
wrong

Antonyms for ill

absolutely
acceptable
adequate
advantage
advantageous
aid
all right
beneficial
benign
better
blessing
bright
certainly
chance
cheer
classic
classical
clearly
comfort
completely
decent
definitely
divine
encouraging
exceeding
exceedingly
excellent
extremely
favorable
fine
fortune
gently
golden
good
good health
great
greatly
hale
happiness
harmless
health
healthful
healthiness
healthy
help
highly
hopeful
innocent
innocuous
inoffensive
joy
keen
kindly
leniently
lightly
luck
mildly
morality
most
noble
ok
okay
opportunity
passable
perfect
pleasure
positively
prime
promising
prosperous
quite
respectable
right
safe
satisfactory
softly
sound
special
standard
stroke
sufficient
superior
surely
tenderly
terribly
tolerable
useful
very
virtue
well
well-being
wellness
whole
wholesome
wonderful

Meanings of ill

noun

(often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
Harm or injury.
Evil; moral wrongfulness.
A physical ailment; an illness.
PCP, phencyclidine.

adjective

Evil; wicked (of people).
Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
Having an urge to vomit.
(hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
Unwise; not a good idea.

adverb

Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.

Example Sentences

She felt ill after eating the seafood.
Despite his ill health, he continued to work tirelessly.
It's crucial to address the root cause of the problem rather than just treating the symptoms of the ill condition.
It's unwise to speak ill of others behind their backs.
He became ill from the flu and had to stay home from school.

On this page you'll find 150 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to ill, such as: absolutely, abuse, acceptable, adequate, advantage, advantageous, adverse.

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