Antonyms for ill
ɪlill

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1. illadverb

   Antonyms:
   well, good, healthy, fine, wack, hale

   Synonyms:
   illy, nauseous, dope, nauseate, poorly, sick, diseased, sicken, under the weather, bad, mal-, disgusted, unwell

2. illadjective

   Evil; wicked (of people).

   Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.

   Antonyms:
   well, fine, hale, wack, healthy, good

   Synonyms:
   illy, mal-, sicken, sick, dope, unwell, diseased, nauseate, bad, disgusted, under the weather, poorly, nauseous

3. illadjective

   Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.

   I wouldn't want you to do me ill.

   Antonyms:
   healthy, well, hale, wack, good, fine

   Synonyms:
   nauseate, dope, sick, disgusted, nauseous, sicken, unwell, mal-, diseased, bad, poorly, under the weather

4. illadjective

   Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.

   He suffered from ill treatment.

   Antonyms:
   well, hale, healthy, wack, fine, good

   Synonyms:
   poorly, diseased, sicken, unwell, mal-, disgusted, sick, dope, nauseous, under the weather, nauseate, bad

5. illadjective

   Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.

   I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.

   Antonyms:
   hale, fine, good, well, wack, healthy

   Synonyms:
   poorly, dope, sicken, under the weather, bad, diseased, disgusted, sick, mal-, unwell, nauseate, nauseous

6. illadjective

   Having an urge to vomit.

   Seeing those pictures made me ill.

   Antonyms:
   well, wack, fine, healthy, good, hale

   Synonyms:
   bad, nauseous, mal-, poorly, under the weather, nauseate, unwell, diseased, disgusted, sicken, dope, sick

7. illadjective

   Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill, comparative iller, superlative illest.]

   Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin Whatchu talkin bout, Willis? — Biggie Smalls, The What, 1994.

   Antonyms:
   fine, hale, healthy, good, well, wack

   Synonyms:
   nauseate, bad, sick, unwell, mal-, under the weather, disgusted, dope, nauseous, sicken, diseased, poorly

8. illadjective

   Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.

   That band was ill.

   Synonyms:
   bad, under the weather, sick, dope, disgusted, unwell, sicken, mal-, nauseous, poorly, diseased, nauseate

   Antonyms:
   good, wack, healthy, fine, well, hale

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1. ill

   Misfortune is adverse fortune or any instance thereof, any untoward event, usually of lingering character or consequences, and such as the sufferer is not deemed directly responsible for; as, he had the misfortune to be born blind. Any considerable disappointment, failure, or misfortune, as regards outward circumstances, as loss of fortune, position, and the like, when long continued or attended with enduring consequences, constitutes adversity. For the loss of friends by death we commonly use affliction or bereavement. Calamity and disaster are used of sudden and severe misfortunes, often overwhelming; ill fortune and ill luck, of lighter troubles and failures. We speak of the misery of the poor, the hardships of the soldier. Affliction, chastening, trial, and tribulation have all an especially religious bearing, suggesting some disciplinary purpose of God with beneficent design. Affliction may be keen and bitter, but brief; tribulation is long and wearing. We speak of an affliction, but rarely of a tribulation, since tribulation is viewed as a continuous process, which may endure for years or for a lifetime; but we speak of our daily trials. Compare CATASTROPHE.

   Antonyms:
   blessing, boon, comfort, consolation, good fortune, good luck, gratification, happiness, joy, pleasure, prosperity, relief, success, triumph

   Synonyms:
   adversity, affliction, bereavement, blow, calamity, chastening, chastisement, disappointment, disaster, distress, failure, hardship, harm, ill fortune, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, ruin, sorrow, stroke, trial, tribulation, trouble, visitation

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1. illnoun

   Synonyms:
   evil, misfortune

2. ill

   Antonyms:
   well, healthy, strong, vigorous

   Synonyms:
   bad, sick, unwell, indisposed, poorly, out of sorts, diseased

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1. ailment, complaint, illadjective

   an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

   Antonyms:
   harmless, healed, amicable, good, recovered, asymptomatic, symptomless, propitious, cured, well

   Synonyms:
   complaint, charge, ailment

2. ill, sickadjective

   affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

   "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

   Antonyms:
   propitious, cured, harmless, recovered, asymptomatic, well, amicable, healed, symptomless, good

   Synonyms:
   grim, sickish, pale, inauspicious, mad, unhinged, sick(p), sick, disturbed, grisly, wan, fed up(p), gruesome, nauseous, macabre, brainsick, sick of(p), ghastly, demented, queasy, ominous, crazy, tired of(p), unbalanced, disgusted, nauseated, pallid

3. illadjective

   resulting in suffering or adversity

   "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good"

   Antonyms:
   good, cured, propitious, healed, amicable, symptomless, asymptomatic, harmless, well, recovered

   Synonyms:
   ominous, inauspicious, sick

4. illadjective

   distressing

   "ill manners"; "of ill repute"

   Antonyms:
   healed, recovered, amicable, harmless, cured, propitious, good, well, asymptomatic, symptomless

   Synonyms:
   ominous, inauspicious, sick

5. illadjective

   indicating hostility or enmity

   "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will"

   Antonyms:
   asymptomatic, recovered, amicable, good, symptomless, harmless, cured, propitious, healed, well

   Synonyms:
   ominous, inauspicious, sick

6. ill, inauspicious, ominousadverb

   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"

   Antonyms:
   good, propitious, well, symptomless, asymptomatic, healed, cured, amicable, recovered, harmless

   Synonyms:
   baleful, threatening, sick, minacious, ominous, inauspicious, untoward, forbidding, minatory, menacing, sinister, adverse, unfortunate

7. ill, badly, poorlyadverb

   (`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"

   Antonyms:
   recovered, asymptomatic, cured, amicable, symptomless, healed, good, propitious, well, harmless

   Synonyms:
   mischievously, badly, poorly, severely, bad, disadvantageously, gravely, naughtily, seriously

8. ill, badlyadverb

   unfavorably or with disapproval

   "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"

   Antonyms:
   recovered, symptomless, well, harmless, propitious, asymptomatic, healed, amicable, good, cured

   Synonyms:
   mischievously, badly, poorly, severely, bad, disadvantageously, gravely, naughtily, seriously

9. illadverb

   with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly

   "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"

   Antonyms:
   harmless, recovered, amicable, well, propitious, good, healed, asymptomatic, cured, symptomless

   Synonyms:
   badly, poorly

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1. illadjective

   Synonyms:
   ailing, sick, unwell, evil, unfavorable, adverse, bad

How to use ill in a sentence?

1. Ahmed Shaheed:

   I continue to receive frequent and alarming reports about the use of prolonged solitary and incommunicado confinement, torture and ill-treatment, lack of access to lawyers and the use of confessions solicited under torture as evidence in trials - practices that clearly violate Iran's own laws.

2. Mike Ryan:

   It is exceptionally important in this case, that the drug is reserved for use in severely ill and critical patients who can benefit from this drug clearly.

3. Sarah Wootton:

   One Briton is already traveling abroad to die every fortnight while over 300 terminally ill people are taking their own lives at home, usually alone and in dangerous ways, every year, the Assisted Dying Bill would have put rigorous safeguards in place, not only to give dying people choice, but also to better protect them.

4. Lindsey Graham:

   To me, it's an ill-conceived idea, the downside is really great, and the upside is pretty small.

5. Delta BingoCEO Cam Johnston:

   Ill make a judgment shortly, but we would prefer that people who are unable to wear masks do not attend. I think its best for them.

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