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