Thesaurus:ill

Thesaurus

ill

English

Adjective

Sense: in poor health

Synonyms

• ailing
• bad    [⇒ thesaurus]
• crank (UK)
• crook (Australia & NZ, slang)
• green about the gills (idiomatic)
• icky
• ill
• indisposed
• infirm
• like death warmed over
• maladive (rare)
• mawkish (archaic)
• off one's feed (idiomatic)
• on the Pat and Mick (Cockney rhyming slang)
• out of sorts
• Pat and Mick (Cockney rhyming slang)
• poorly
• queer (dated)
• sick
• sickish
• sickly
• sick as a dog
• sick as a parrot
• under the weather (idiomatic)
• unhealthy
• unwell
• valetudinarian
• valetudinary

Antonyms

• healthy    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• diseased    [⇒ thesaurus]
• nauseated    [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• bedbound
• bedfast
• bedridden
• laid up

Further reading

• “655. disease” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “ill” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.