English words starting with ill

Meanings of Ill:

adjective

Suffering from an illness or disease or feeling unwell.

Usage examples:

He was taken ill with food poisoning

adverb

Badly, wrongly, or imperfectly.

Usage examples:

The street is dominated by ill-lit shops

noun

A problem or misfortune.

Usage examples:

A lengthy work on the ills of society

abbreviation

Illinois.

contraction

I shall; i will.

Usage examples:

I'll arrange it

Meanings of Ill-advised:

adjective

Unwise or not carefully considered

Meanings of Ill-assorted:

adjective

Looking strange together and not seeming to be a good match

Usage examples:

Ill-assorted furniture, an ill-assorted couple

Meanings of Ill-at-ease:

idiom

Feeling anxious and not relaxed

Usage examples:

He looked ill at ease in the room full of reporters.

Meanings of Ill-bred:

adjective

Rude and behaving badly

Usage examples:

An ill-bred young man

Meanings of Ill-conceived:

adjective

Badly planned, not carefully considered, or based on wrong information or unreasonable beliefs

Usage examples:

Critics say the state's budget proposal is ill-conceived and short-sighted.

Meanings of Ill-disposed:

adjective

To not be friendly to someone or not support them

Usage examples:

Most of the audience seemed ill-disposed towards the speaker.

Meanings of Ill-disposed-towards:

adjective

To not be friendly to someone or not support them

Usage examples:

Most of the audience seemed ill-disposed towards the speaker.

Meanings of Ill-fated:

adjective

Unlucky or certain to experience failure that cannot be avoided

Meanings of Ill-fitting:

adjective

Ill-fitting clothes do not fit well.

Meanings of Ill-health:

noun

Illness or a health condition that affects you for a long time

Usage examples:

He retired at 58 because of ill health.

Meanings of Ill-humoured:

adjective

Unfriendly or in a bad mood

Usage examples:

He was a surly and ill-humoured man., although their discussions were at times intense, they were n…

Meanings of Ill-informed:

adjective

Knowing less than you should about a particular subject

Meanings of Ill-mannered:

adjective

Rude and unpleasant

Meanings of Ill-omened:

adjective

→  ill-fated

Meanings of Ill-repute:

phrase

A bad, good, etc. reputation

Usage examples:

Of good/ill repute a place of ill repute, it was said he associated with persons of ill repute., th…

Meanings of Ill-starred:

adjective

→  ill-fated

Meanings of Ill-tempered:

adjective

Easily annoyed

Usage examples:

An increasingly ill-tempered match saw three players sent off before half-time.

Meanings of Ill-treat:

verb

To treat someone badly, especially by being violent or by not taking care of them

Usage examples:

The child had been severely ill-treated by his parents.

Meanings of Ill-treated:

verb

Past participle, past simple of ill-treat

Usage examples:

The child had been severely ill-treated by his parents.

Meanings of Ill-treatment:

noun

The act of treating someone badly, especially by being violent or by not taking care of them

Usage examples:

Many asylum seekers described the ill-treatment they had received in detention centres., workers ha…

Meanings of Ill-used:

adjective

Treated badly

Usage examples:

An ill-used servant girl, within the relationship he feels ill-used most of the time.

Meanings of Ill-will:

noun

Bad feelings between people because of things that happened in the past

Usage examples:

The feud between the sisters resulted in decades of ill will that lasted their whole lives., we may…

Meanings of Illation:

noun

The action of inferring or drawing a conclusion.

Usage examples:

To the extent that our private views are doing the work - to the extent that the engine of illation…

Meanings of Illations:

noun

The action of inferring or drawing a conclusion.

Usage examples:

To the extent that our private views are doing the work - to the extent that the engine of illation…