| 单词 | ill |
| 释义 | ill (once / 53 pages) 1adjadvn 2adjadv If you're ill, you're unwell, or sick. Being ill is a good excuse for missing work or school. You might get ill after being sneezed on by someone with a cold; or eating street food in a foreign country; or for no reason that you can point to. People can be mentally ill as well as physically ill, from depression or anxiety among other ailments. Ill can also mean "bad" in various ways, including when you suffer ill effects from going too long without sleep, or exercise ill judgment when you buy $500 worth of lottery tickets. WORD FAMILYill: iller, illness, ills+/illness: illnesses USAGE EXAMPLESWe live in the same city, and are close. he day the baby was born, doctors thought she might be seriously ill. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) Trump’s recent comments bode ill for federal investments in cyberdefense. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) The Hurricanes found themselves in a pinch when Lack fell ill before Saturday night’s game at Tampa Bay. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function ill from the monotony of his suffering Syn|Ant sick unfit not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition unhealthynot in or exhibiting good health in body or mind afflicted, strickengrievously affected especially by disease aguishaffected by ague ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwellsomewhat ill or prone to illness air sick, airsick, carsick, seasickexperiencing motion sickness autisticcharacteristic of or affected with autism bedfast, bedrid, bedridden, sick-abedconfined to bed (by illness) bilious, liverish, liverysuffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress bronchiticsuffering from or prone to bronchitis consumptiveafflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis convalescent, recoveringreturning to health after illness or debility delirious, hallucinatingexperiencing delirium diabeticsuffering from diabetes dizzy, giddy, vertiginous, woozyhaving or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling dyspepticsuffering from dyspepsia faint, light, light-headed, lightheaded, swooningweak and likely to lose consciousness feverish, feveroushaving or affected by a fever funnyexperiencing odd bodily sensations goutysuffering from gout greenlooking pale and unhealthy laid low, strickenput out of action (by illness) laid upill and usually confined milk-sickaffected with or related to milk sickness nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickishfeeling nausea; feeling about to vomit palsiedaffected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor paralytic, paralyzedaffected with paralysis paraplegicsuffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord rachitic, ricketyaffected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets scrofulousafflicted with scrofula sneezyinclined to sneeze spasticsuffering from spastic paralysis tubercular, tuberculousconstituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus unhealednot healed upsetmildly physically distressed well in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury fitphysically and mentally sound or healthy healthyhaving or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease asymptomatic, symptomlesshaving no symptoms of illness or disease cured, healed, recoveredfreed from illness or injury 2adj resulting in suffering or adversity ill effects it's an ill wind that blows no good Syn harmful causing or capable of causing harm 3adj distressing ill manners of ill repute Syn bad having undesirable or negative qualities 4adj presaging ill fortune ill omens ill predictions Syn inauspicious, ominous unpropitious not propitious 5adv (`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 ill-fitting clothes an ill-conceived plan Syn|Ant badly, poorly good, well (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well') 6adv with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly we can ill afford to buy a new car just now 7n an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper ailment, complaint pip a minor nonspecific ailment kinetosis, motion sicknessthe state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle air sickness, airsicknessmotion sickness experienced while traveling by air (especially during turbulence) car sicknessmotion sickness experienced while traveling in a car mal de mer, naupathia, seasicknessmotion sickness experienced while traveling on water disorder, upset a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning 1adj indicating hostility or enmity you certainly did me an ill turn ill feelings ill will Syn hostile characterized by enmity or ill will 2adv unfavorably or with disapproval tried not to speak ill of the dead Syn|Ant badly well favorably; with approval |
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