English > ill: 9 senses > adjective 1Meaning | Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function. |
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Example | "ill from the monotony of his suffering" |
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Synonym | sick |
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Narrower | afflicted, stricken | grievously affected especially by disease |
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aguish | affected by ague / ague |
ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy | Somewhat ill or prone to illness |
airsick, air sick, carsick, seasick | Experiencing motion sickness |
autistic | characteristic of or affected with autism |
bedfast, bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed | Confined to bed (by illness) |
bilious, liverish, livery | Suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress |
bronchitic | Suffering from or prone to bronchitis |
consumptive | Afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis |
convalescent, recovering | Returning to health after illness or debility |
delirious, hallucinating | Experiencing delirium |
diabetic | Suffering from diabetes |
dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous | Having or causing a whirling sensation |
dyspeptic | Suffering from dyspepsia |
faint, light, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded | Weak and likely to lose consciousness |
feverish, feverous | Having or affected by a fever |
funny | Experiencing odd bodily / bodily sensations |
gouty | Suffering from gout |
green | looking pale and unhealthy |
laid low, stricken | put out of action (by illness) |
laid up | Ill and usually confined |
milk-sick | affected with or related to milk ... / milk sickness |
nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish | Feeling nausea |
palsied | affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor |
paralytic, paralyzed | affected with paralysis |
paraplegic | Suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord |
rickety, rachitic | affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets |
scrofulous | Afflicted with scrofula |
sneezy | Inclined to sneeze |
spastic | Suffering from spastic paralysis |
tubercular, tuberculous | constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus |
unhealed | not healed |
upset | mildly physically distressed |
See also | unfit | not in good physical or mental condition |
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unhealthy | not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind |
Opposite | well | In good health especially after having suffered illness or injury |
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Spanish | enferma, enfermo |
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Catalan | malalt |
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Nouns | illness | impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism |
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