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Main Entry:	ill [il] Show IPA/ɪl/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	sick
Synonyms:	a wreck, afflicted, ailing, below par, bummed, diseased, down, down with, feeling awful, feeling rotten, feeling terrible, got the bug, indisposed, infirm, laid low, off one's feet, on sick list, out of sorts, peaked, poorly, queasy, rotten, run-down, running temperature, sick as a dog, under the weather, unhealthy, unwell, woozy
Antonyms:	good, healthy, sound, strong, well

Main Entry:	ill
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	misfortune
Synonyms:	abuse, affection, affliction, ailment, badness, complaint, condition, cruelty, damage, depravity, destruction, disease, disorder, evil, harm, hurt, illness, indisposition, infirmity, injury, insult, malady, malaise, malice, mischief, misery, pain, sickness, suffering, syndrome, trial, tribulation, trouble, unpleasantness, wickedness, woe, wrong
Antonyms:	benefit, blessing, fortune, happiness, luck, privilege, profit, prosperity

Main Entry:	ailing
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	not feeling well
Synonyms:	below par, debilitated, diseased, down, down with, enfeebled, feeble, feeling awful, ill, indisposed, rocky, run down, sick, sick as a dog, sickly, under the weather, unwell, wasting, weak
Antonyms:	healthy

Example Sentences

McDonough is lying dangerously ill at his residence in this city.

Many will tell you that students are ill prepared for the demands of higher education.

Under the law, four terminally ill cancer patients.

McDonough is lying dangerously ill at his residence in this city.

Many will tell you that students are ill prepared for the demands of higher education.

Under the law, four terminally ill cancer patients.

The whale appeared to be ill from wounds that became infected as the rope dug into its skin.

Researchers uncover gene mutations that contribute to disease by screening the genomes of thousands of healthy and ill people.

He became ill and disabled and spent the last years of his life in an insane asylum.

How the parents of desperately ill children are rewriting the rules of the medical industry.

My ex's mother had one, but she was terminally ill and in the hospital long-term, which is not the case for me.

In some cases engines have even fallen off with no ill effect.

As a result the city was ill prepared for the unexpected quake.

Fifty years ago the mentally ill generally had two choices: for the affluent, there was psychotherapy, and for all.

People who are ill or have conditions that could be worsened by fasting are specifically exempted from taking part.

The day after an awesome tailgate party, you feel deathly ill.

That's a better plan of action than feeling uncomfortable and it could potentially defuse the situation without ill feeling.

Born of panic, the proposal was ill planned and ineptly explained:.

But before they had a chance to make any money, they fell ill from inhaling the mining dust.

Over the centuries, society's approaches to treating the mentally ill have shifted dramatically.

If a mount falls ill or even dies, its contrada is out of luck, and out of the race.

How many of those workers will become ill is difficult to foretell.

The focus of life shifts to waiting and caring and seeing to the comfort of the terminally ill one.

The soldiers are ill trained and chiefly preoccupied with finding food and shelter.

Under the current plan, the ill elderly top the list, while healthy.

Humans have a natural aversion to those who are ill.

She was often ill and became bedridden for an entire year after a bout with the measles.

The policy was originally designed to keep people who knew they'd become ill from using the military for free.

The act of mating with a species other than your own may not be as ill advised or peculiar as it seems.

After six hours of radically decreased heart rate and breathing, the mice were revived without any ill effect.

And indeed he did, with the exception of one man, who did fall ill and die.

Thousands more are turned away, deemed too ill to survive that operation and out of options.

The world is aglow with dire headlines about energy consumption and its ill effects.

It is part of the program so that the ill person feels safe.

The practice of the time when people were seriously ill.

The waterproof body survived a full submersive dunk with no ill effect.

Most evidence suggests ill effects from violent video games.

He told his children that it looked as if rain were on the way and went to bed, feeling ill.

But this power to do good may also be a power to do ill.

Temperature extremes have been known to have an ill effect on populations' health and mortality rates.

He had been a mentally ill drug addict for much of his later.

One person might lose his job, another might fall ill.

S aureus is a common bacterium-about a third of us carry it around without ill effect.

It is alot easier to get on the treadmill in the morning barefoot and with no ill effects.

The first is that the patterns, if ill chosen, can legitimately appear in uninfected files.

Reynolds bowed out when his wife became terminally ill.

The addition of weight below and behind the center of gravity reduces those ill effects by offsetting the baby's load.

Larger marine mammals and ducks, meanwhile, suffered ill effects because their prey was.

As small animals ingest that algae, they ingest that toxin, doesn't appear to have any ill effect on them.

The dilemma of the mentally ill is trying to determine which is worse: disorder symptoms or drug side effects.

It is not so uncommon to see acutely ill patients with life-threatening sepsis from colitis and need for urgent colectomy.

Ill making viruses are a variation of a normal and healthy process.

Our society is seriously mentally ill with respect to hemp.

Mentally ill people, especially schizophrenics are supposedly stereotypically good at art.

Main Entry:	bad
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	sick
Synonyms:	ailing, diseased, ill, in pain, unwell
Notes:	badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state

Main Entry:	bedridden
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	sick in bed
Synonyms:	ailing, disabled, flat on one's back, ill, incapacitated, infirm, invalid, laid up, prostrate

Main Entry:	catastrophe
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	calamity; unhappy conclusion
Synonyms:	accident, adversity, affliction, alluvion, bad luck, bad news, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, contretemps, crash, culmination, curtains, debacle, denouement, desolation, devastation, disaster, emergency, end, failure, fatality, fiasco, finale, grief, hardship, havoc, ill, infliction, meltdown, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, scourge, stroke, termination, the worst, tragedy, trial, trouble, upshot, waterloo, wreck
Antonyms:	benefit, blessing, favor, good fortune, good luck, happiness, miracle, success, wonder

Main Entry:	complaint
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	illness, affliction
Synonyms:	affection, ailment, condition, disease, disorder, ill, indisposition, infirmity, malady, sickness, syndrome, upset
Antonyms:	health

Main Entry:	condition
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	illness
Synonyms:	affection, ailment, complaint, disease, ill, infirmity, malady, predicament, problem, syndrome, temper, weakness

Main Entry:	detrimental
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	damaging, disadvantageous
Synonyms:	adverse, bad, baleful, deleterious, destructive, disturbing, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, mischievous, negative, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, unfavorable
Antonyms:	advantageous, assisting, beneficial, helpful, profitable

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