ill

• Cimmerian
• a wreck
• abominable
• abomination
• abuse
• abusively
• abysmal
• accident
• achy
• acrimonious
• adverse
• adversity
• affection
• afflicted
• affliction
• aggressively
• ail
• ailing
• ailment
• airsick
• anathema
• antagonistic
• assertively
• atrocious
• atrociousness
• atrocity
• attack
• awful
• bad
• badness
• baleful
• balefulness
• baneful
• bastard
• below par
• black
• bleak
• blow
• body blow
• bout
• brutal
• brutally
• brutishly
• bug
• bum
• bummed
• bush
• bush-league
• by no means
• calamity
• callously
• cancer
• canker
• cantankerous
• carsick
• casualty
• cataclysm
• catastrophe
• challenged
• cheerless
• cheesy
• chill
• circumstance
• cloudy
• coarse
• cold
• cold-bloodedly
• comfortless
• common
• complaint
• complication
• condition
• contagion
• contagious
• contagious disease
• contagium
• corruption
• counterfeit
• crappy
• cross
• cruddy
• cruelty
• crumby
• crummy
• curse
• cut-rate
• damage
• damaging
• damnable
• dangerous
• dark
• darkening
• darkness
• deadly
• debauchery
• debilitated
• debility
• decay
• decidedly
• decrepit
• decrepitude
• defeat
• defective
• deficient
• degeneracy
• deleterious
• deplorable
• depravedness
• depravity
• depressing
• depressive
• desolate
• destiny
• destruction
• destructive
• determinedly
• detestable
• detrimental
• devilishness
• devilry
• deviltry
• diabolism
• dim
• dire
• direful
• disabled
• disappointment
• disaster
• disastrous
• disconsolate
• discouraging
• disease
• diseased
• disheartening
• dismal
• disorder
• disordered
• disrespectful
• dissatisfactory
• distemper
• distemperature
• distress
• disturbing
• dizzy
• doom
• doomy
• down
• down with
• dreadful
• drear
• dreary
• dreich
• egregious
• elegiac
• elegiacal
• enormity
• epidemic
• evil
• evildoing
• evilness
• execrable
• failure
• fake
• fatal
• fate
• faulty
• feeble
• feebleness
• feeling awful
• feeling rotten
• feeling terrible
• fever
• feverish
• fiendishness
• firmly
• fit
• fizzle
• flagrant
• flawed
• foreboding
• forlorn
• foul
• fragile
• frail
• frailness
• from hunger
• funereal
• gloomy
• glum
• gnarly
• godforsaken
• got the bug
• gray
• green
• grey
• grimly
• gross
• gruffly
• halt
• hard
• hard-heartedly
• hardly
• hardship
• harm
• harmful
• harsh
• harshly
• hateful
• hazardous
• heartlessly
• heinousness
• hopeless
• horrendous
• horrible
• hostile
• hurt
• hurtful
• hypochondriac
• hypochondriacal
• ill-boding
• ill-fated
• ill-mannered
• ill-starred
• illness
• immorality
• imperiling
• imperilling
• impertinent
• inadequate
• inauspicious
• incapacitated
• indecency
• indisposed
• indisposition
• infection
• infectious
• infective
• inferior
• infirm
• infirmity
• inhumanely
• inhumanly
• inimical
• iniquitous
• iniquitousness
• iniquity
• injurious
• injury
• insensately
• insensitively
• insidious
• insufficient
• insult
• invalid
• jeopardizing
• junky
• killer
• knock
• lacking
• laid low
• lame
• lameness
• lesser
• letdown
• lethal
• light-headed
• lonely
• lonesome
• lot
• lousy
• low-grade
• low-rent
• lugubrious
• malady
• malaise
• malefaction
• malevolent
• malice
• malicious
• malign
• malignant
• matter
• meager
• meagre
• mean
• mediocre
• menacing
• mercilessly
• minatory
• misadventure
• mischance
• mischief
• mischievous
• miscreant
• miserable
• miserly
• misery
• misfortune
• mishap
• morbid
• morose
• murky
• nasty
• nauseated
• nauseous
• near
• never
• niggardly
• no
• no way
• nocent
• nocuous
• noisome
• none
• nonsuccess
• nothing
• nothing doing
• noway
• nowhere
• nowise
• noxious
• obdurately
• odious
• off
• ominous
• on no account
• on sick list
• oppressively
• out of sorts
• pain
• paltry
• parlous
• pathetic
• peaked
• peaky
• perilous
• pernicious
• perversion
• pervertedness
• pest
• pestiferous
• pestilence
• pestilent
• pestilential
• phoney
• phony
• pip
• pitilessly
• plague
• plutonian
• poisonous
• poor
• poorly
• portentous
• portion
• prejudicial
• punk
• qualmish
• queasy
• queazy
• queer
• queerish
• reprehensible
• resolutely
• risky
• rot
• rotten
• roughly
• rubbishy
• ruinous
• run down
• run-down
• running a temperature
• ruthlessly
• satanism
• saturnine
• savagely
• scanty
• scarcely
• scurrility
• scurrilous
• scurrilousness
• seasick
• second-rate
• seedy
• sepulchral
• setback
• severely
• shabby
• shaky
• sham
• shoddy
• short
• sick
• sick as a dog
• sickened
• sickish
• sickliness
• sickly
• sickness
• sin
• sinfulness
• sinister
• skimp
• skimpy
• sleazy
• somber
• sombre
• sorrow
• sour
• spare
• spell
• squalor
• squeamish
• star-crossed
• sternly
• stiffly
• stingy
• stinky
• strongly
• suboptimal
• subpar
• substandard
• sucky
• suffering
• sullen
• sunless
• surly
• symptomatic
• syndrome
• taboo
• tabu
• tenebrific
• tenebrous
• terrible
• threatening
• toughly
• tragedy
• trashy
• trial
• tribulation
• trouble
• troubled
• tyrannically
• unacceptable
• uncharitably
• under par
• under the weather
• unfavorable
• unfeelingly
• unfortunate
• unfriendly
• ungracious
• unhappiness
• unhealthful
• unhealthiness
• unhealthy
• unkind
• unlucky
• unmercifully
• unpleasantness
• unpromising
• unpropitious
• unsafe
• unsatisfactory
• unsettled
• unsound
• unsoundness
• unsparingly
• unspeakable
• unwell
• unwellness
• unwholesome
• upset
• useless
• valueless
• venomous
• viciously
• vile
• vileness
• villainous
• villainy
• wack
• wanting
• weak
• weakly
• weakness
• wicked
• wickedness
• woe
• woozy
• worthless
• wretched
• wrong

• A1
• OK
• able-bodied
• absolutely
• acceptable
• accomplishment
• achievement
• adequate
• advantage
• advantageous
• aid
• all right
• anodyne
• assuredly
• auspicious
• average
• awful
• awfully
• bang-up
• banner
• beneficial
• benefit
• benevolently
• benign
• benignant
• benignantly
• better
• blessing
• blooming
• borderline
• boss
• bouncing
• break
• bright
• capital
• certainly
• chance
• charitably
• cheer
• chipper
• choice
• classic
• classical
• clearly
• clemently
• comfort
• compassionately
• completely
• conditioned
• considerately
• convalescing
• cordially
• crackerjack
• curative
• cured
• dandy
• decency
• decent
• definitely
• divine
• doubtless
• encouraging
• enormously
• exceeding
• exceedingly
• excellent
• exceptional
• extremely
• fabulous
• fair
• fancy
• favor
• favorable
• fettle
• fine
• first-class
• first-rate
• fit
• fitness
• flourishing
• fluke
• flush
• fortune
• friendliness
• gently
• godsend
• golden
• good
• good health
• goodness
• graciously
• grand
• gratifying
• great
• greatly
• groovy
• hale
• hands down
• happiness
• happy
• hardy
• harmless
• health
• healthful
• healthiness
• healthy
• heartening
• heartiness
• hearty
• heavenly
• help
• helpful
• high-grade
• high-test
• highly
• hit
• honest
• honesty
• hopeful
• hugely
• humanely
• hurtless
• immensely
• improved
• improvement
• innocent
• innocuous
• inoffensive
• integrity
• jim-dandy
• joy
• keen
• kindly
• kindness
• leniently
• lightly
• lovingly
• luck
• lusty
• marvellous
• marvelous
• mean
• mediocre
• mending
• mercifully
• middling
• mightily
• mighty
• mildly
• minimal
• moral
• morality
• more or less
• most
• mostly
• neat
• nifty
• noble
• noncorrosive
• nondestructive
• nonfatal
• noninfectious
• nonlethal
• nonpoisonous
• nonpolluting
• nontoxic
• nonvenomous
• okay
• opportunity
• palliative
• par excellence
• passable
• peace
• perfect
• perfectly
• plainly
• pleasure
• positively
• praise
• premium
• prime
• privilege
• probity
• profit
• promising
• propitious
• prosperity
• prosperous
• quite
• rather
• really
• recovering
• rectitude
• recuperating
• rehabilitated
• remedial
• respectable
• right
• righteousness
• robust
• robustness
• rugged
• safe
• salubrious
• salutary
• satisfactory
• satisfying
• secure
• sensational
• serendipity
• settled
• shape
• slick
• slightly
• so-so
• softheartedly
• softly
• somewhat
• sound
• soundness
• special
• splendid
• stalwart
• standard
• stellar
• sterling
• strike
• stroke
• strong
• success
• sufficient
• suitable
• superb
• superior
• superlative
• supernal
• surely
• swell
• sympathetically
• tenderly
• terribly
• terrific
• thoughtfulness
• thriving
• tip-top
• tolerable
• tolerantly
• top
• top-notch
• tough
• truly
• understandingly
• unequivocally
• unexceptional
• unquestionably
• unsurpassed
• unthreatening
• uprightness
• useful
• utterly
• very
• virtue
• virtuousness
• well
• well-being
• well-conditioned
• wellness
• whole
• wholeness
• wholesome
• wholesomeness
• windfall
• wonderful
• worthy

• noun
  1. (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
  2. Harm or injury.
  3. Evil; moral wrongfulness.
  4. A physical ailment; an illness.
  5. PCP, phencyclidine.
• adjective
  1. Evil; wicked (of people).
  2. Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
  3. Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
  4. Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
  5. Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
  6. Having an urge to vomit.
  7. (hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
  8. Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
  9. Unwise; not a good idea.
• adverb
  1. Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.

• 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.

caddishly

damaging

damning

keenly

obdurately

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