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31ill — Synonyms and related words: abomination, affection, ailing, ailment, amiss, apocalyptic, atrocity, bad, badly, baleful, bane, baneful, befoulment, below par, black, blight, bodeful, boding, complaint, condition, corruption, criminal, critically… …
32ill-fated — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. ill starred, doomed; unlucky. See adversity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. ill starred, catastrophic, disastrous; see destructive 2 , doomed , unfortunate 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. doomed …
33ill-fated — Synonyms and related words: apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, dark, dire, doomful, dreary, evil, evil starred, fateful, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill boding, ill omened, ill starred, inauspicious, lowering, menacing, of… …
34ill-off — Synonyms and related words: badly off, bare handed, beggarly, depressed, dire, distressed, donsie, doomful, down to bedrock, embarrassed, empty handed, evil starred, famished, fatal, feeling the pinch, fortuneless, funest, half starved, hapless,… …
35ill-fated — adjective marked by or promising bad fortune (Freq. 1) their business venture was doomed from the start an ill fated business venture an ill starred romance the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons W.H.Prescott • Syn: ↑doomed, ↑ill …
36ill-omened — adjective marked by or promising bad fortune their business venture was doomed from the start an ill fated business venture an ill starred romance the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons W.H.Prescott • Syn: ↑doomed, ↑ill fated, ↑ill starred …
37ill — adj., adv., & n. adj. 1 (usu. predic.; often foll. by with) out of health; sick (is ill; was taken ill with pneumonia; mentally ill people). 2 (of health) unsound, disordered. 3 wretched, unfavourable (ill fortune; ill luck). 4 harmful (ill… …
38ill — {{11}}ill (adj.) c.1200, morally evil (other 13c. senses were malevolent, hurtful, unfortunate, difficult ), from O.N. illr ill, bad, of unknown origin. Not related to EVIL (Cf. evil). Main modern sense of sick, unhealthy, unwell is first… …
39ill-fated — adj 1. star crossed, ill starred, ill omened, doomed, born under an evil star; unlucky, luckless, unfortunate, hapless; untoward, unfavorable, adverse, contrary, unpropitious, inauspicious; ill boding, ominous, sinister, threatening, portentous,… …
40ill-omened — adj ill starred, ill fated, star crossed, doomed, unlucky. See ill fated (def.1) …
