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ailment, complaint, ill

n. an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

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ill

adv. with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly; "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"

ill

adj. indicating hostility or enmity; "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will"

ill

adj. not good; unfriendly or harmful: "ill manners"; "ill repute"; "ill deeds"; "ill will"; "an ill wind"

ill, inauspicious, ominous

adj. presaging ill fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"

condition, shape

n. the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape')

event

n. a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory

necessity

n. the condition of being essential or indispensable

disease

n. an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

infirmity, frailty, debility, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianism

n. the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)

sickness

n. defectiveness or unsoundness; "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"; "a great sickness of his judgment"

contagious disease, contagion

n. any disease easily transmitted by contact

epidemic

n. a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time

plague

n. an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"

affliction

n. a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health

circumstance

n. formal ceremony about important occasions; "pomp and circumstance"

disorder

n. a disturbance of the peace or of public order

adverse, inauspicious, untoward

adj. contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"

unfortunate, unlucky

adj. causing negative effects

prejudicial, prejudicious

adj. tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population"

negative

adj. expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

antipathetic, antipathetical, averse(p), indisposed(p), loath(p), loth(p)

adj. (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed; "antipathetic to new ideas"; "averse to taking risks"; "loath to go on such short notice"; "clearly indisposed to grant their request"

contrary

adj. very opposed in nature or character or purpose; "acts contrary to our code of ethics"; "the facts point to a contrary conclusion"

contradictory, mutually exclusive

adj. unable to be both true at the same time

antagonistic, counter

adj. indicating opposition or resistance

malevolent

adj. wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; "a gossipy malevolent old woman"; "failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful"

evil

adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"

ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy

adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"

decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly

adj. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish

adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

unhealthy

adj. not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"

unkind

adj. lacking kindness; "a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all"

unfavorable, unfavourable

adj. (of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose; "unfavorable winds"

aggressive, belligerent

adj. characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight; "aggressive acts against another country"; "a belligerent tone"

opponent, opposing

adj. characterized by active hostility; "opponent (or opposing) armies"

at loggerheads

adj. in a dispute or confrontation; "Sam and his parents were at loggerheads over the question of car privileges"

dirty

adj. unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing"

head-on

adj. characterized by direct opposition; "a head-on confrontation"

unfriendly, inimical

adj. not friendly; "an unfriendly act of aggression"; "an inimical critic"

bad

adj. having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"

thunderous

adj. extremely ominous; "world events of thunderous import"

well

adv. without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor; "took the joke well"; "took the tragic news well"

well(p)

adj. wise or advantageous and hence advisable; "it would be well to start early"

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