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单词 ill
释义

ill

/ɪl /
adjective
1Suffering from an illness or disease or feeling unwell: he was taken ill with food poisoning [with submodifier]: a terminally ill patient (as plural noun the ill) a day centre for the mentally ill...
  • Leaders of our medical organisations should not allow informed consent to interfere with clinical management of infectious disease or seriously ill patients.
  • Two other patients are critically ill after contracting the disease through infected organs from the donor.
  • Siti said that volunteers should also understand that terminally ill patients usually suffer from psychological strain due to their illness.

Synonyms

unwell, sick, not (very) well, ailing, poorly, sickly, peaky, afflicted, indisposed, infirm, liverish;
out of sorts, not oneself, not in good shape, not up to par, under/below par, bad, in a bad way;
bedridden, invalided, on the sick list, valetudinarian;
queasy, nauseous, nauseated;
weak, feeble, frail;
diseased, infected;
British off colour
informal under the weather, not up to snuff, laid up, dicky, funny, peculiar, iffy, crummy, lousy, rough, groggy, green about the gills, at death's door, like death warmed up
British informal ropy, grotty
Scottish informal wabbit
Australian/New Zealand informal crook
vulgar slang crappy
dated queer, seedy
2 [attributive] Poor in quality: ill judgement dogs the unsuccessful...
  • It was because of her ill judgment.
  • Is their any provision to ban an umpire for his attitude problems and making of ill decisions?

Synonyms

bad, poor, unsatisfactory, incompetent, unacceptable, inadequate, deficient, defective, faulty, unskilful, inexpert, amateurish
2.1Bad or harmful: she had a cup of the same wine and suffered no ill effects...
  • However, the average life of an Indian was 62 as the ill effects of cancer were visible only at a later stage in life.
  • I have always known the ill effects of smoking but did not know how harmful it could be.
  • By far the most serious ill effect of the sun is skin cancer.

Synonyms

harmful, damaging, detrimental, deleterious, adverse, injurious, hurtful, destructive, pernicious, inimical, dangerous, ruinous, calamitous, disastrous, malign, malignant;
unhealthy, unwholesome, poisonous, noxious, cancerous
literary malefic, maleficent, nocuous, baneful
2.2Not favourable or auspicious: I have had a run of ill luck a bird of ill omen...
  • As explained elsewhere, the trip to Brisbane, or more precisely the trip back, was a journey of ill omen for young Les as it threw him into the close company of Tim O'Sullivan.
  • To cap Flanagan's misfortune, he punctured with 15 miles to go and there was an immediate charge from the front of his bunch, capitalising on his ill luck.
  • During that journey, we once again encounter an ill omen in nature: in this instance, a turtle trapped on its back beneath a big rock.

Synonyms

unlucky, adverse, unfavourable, unfortunate, unpropitious, inauspicious, unpromising, infelicitous, bad, gloomy;
threatening, menacing, ominous, sinister, disturbing, dire, evil, baleful, forbidding, portentous
archaic direful
rare minatory, minacious
adverb
1 [usually in combination] Badly, wrongly, or imperfectly: the street is dominated by ill-lit shops it ill becomes one so beautiful to be gloomy...
  • The Bosnian government was ill prepared to defend the country with no army and only a poorly equipped territorial defense force.
  • I must be that inexplicably angry, obtuse, ill mannered, audacious, pompous blow-hard that writes insulting letters to The Peak!
  • The big worry is that the cash-strapped Irish health service is ill equipped to deal with an epidemic of any form, least of all a potentially fatal virus like SARS.

Synonyms

poorly, badly, imperfectly;
wrongly, unsuccessfully
badly, adversely, unsuccessfully, unfavourably;
unfortunately, unluckily, hard, inauspiciously
inadequately, unsatisfactorily, insufficiently, imperfectly, deficiently, defectively, poorly, badly, negligently
1.1Unfavourably or inauspiciously: a look on her face which boded ill for anyone who crossed her path...
  • I just watched ten minutes of speculation on whether a long deliberation bodes well or ill for the defense.

Synonyms

unfavourably, adversely, badly, unhappily, inauspiciously
2Only with difficulty; hardly: she could ill afford the cost of new curtains...
  • This loss of time could be ill afforded at a time when the technical preparations for Mike were at a critical stage.
  • He stressed that some of the goods produced locally lacked quality and were produced at a comparatively higher cost making such goods ill equipped to compete on the regional market.
  • Culpeper's deepest desire was to make herbal medicine available to everyone, especially the poor who could ill afford to visit a physician.

Synonyms

barely, scarcely, hardly, just, only just, just possibly, narrowly;
with difficulty, only with effort
British informal at a push
noun (usually ills)
1A problem or misfortune: a lengthy work on the ills of society...
  • As tempting as it is to demonise computer games for society's ills, the evidence does not suggest such a simple link.
  • Of all the social ills and problems plaguing Bihar, sati was never on the list.
  • Both of them believe that society's ills can be fixed by putting the right man at the top to make laws and crack down on the wrong people.

Synonyms

problems, troubles, difficulties, misfortunes, strains, trials, tribulations, trials and tribulations, worries, anxieties, concerns;
pain, suffering, hardship, misery, woe, affliction, distress, disquiet, malaise
informal headaches, probs, hassles
archaic travails
illnesses, ill/poor health;
ailments, disorders, complaints, afflictions, sicknesses, diseases, maladies, infirmities, indispositions;
infections, contagions
1.1 [mass noun] Evil or harm: how could I wish him ill?...
  • I want to state that I do not wish ill upon any person, and this is in fact another part of the problem.
  • I don't want to speak for anyone else, but people here generally are Democrats and wish political ill on the Republicans.
  • I wish her no ill at this stage in the competition.

Synonyms

harm, hurt, injury, damage, mischief, pain, trouble, unpleasantness, misfortune, grievance, suffering, distress, anguish, trauma, grief

Phrases

ill at ease

speak (or think) ill of

Origin

Middle English (in the senses 'wicked', 'malevolent', 'harmful', and 'difficult'): from Old Norse illr 'evil, difficult', of unknown origin.

  • Ill is from Old Norse illr ‘evil’, and the commonest modern sense, ‘suffering from an illness or feeling unwell’, developed in the later medieval period. Before then a person would be sick, as they still are in the USA. The idea of harm and evil is prominent in many English proverbs, such as it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good. This refers to the days of sailing ships. The wind might be blowing in the wrong direction for you, but it was sure to be blowing the right way for someone, somewhere—it would be a very bad or ‘ill’ wind that was of no help to anyone.

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