Ill vs Innocuous - What's the difference?
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(label) Evil; wicked (of people).
* (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
(label) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
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Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
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Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
Having an urge to vomit.
(label) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill', ''comparative'' '''iller''', ''superlative'' ' illest .]
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(label) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be .
Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.
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(often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
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Evil; moral wrongfulness.
* (John Dryden)
A physical ailment; an illness.
Unfavorable remarks or opinions.
(US, slang) PCP, phencyclidine.
Harmless; producing no ill effect.
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* 1910 , , The Lair of the White Worm , ch. 11:
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Inoffensive; unprovocative; not exceptional.
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As adjectives the difference between ill and innocuous
is that ill is (obsolete) evil; wicked (of people) while innocuous is harmless; producing no ill effect.As a adverb ill
is not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.As a noun ill
is (often pluralized) trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.ill
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it.
- ‘Go bring her. It is ill to keep a lady waiting.’
- Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?"
Usage notes
* The comparative forms iller and illest are used in American English, but less than one fourth as frequently as the "more" and "most" forms.Synonyms
* (suffering from a disease''): diseased, poorly (''UK ), sick, under the weather (informal), unwell * (having an urge to vomit ): disgusted, nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickened * (bad ): bad, mal- * (in hip-hop slang: sublime ): dope * See alsoAntonyms
* (suffering from a disease ): fine, hale, healthy, in good health, well * (having an urge to vomit ): * (bad ): good * (in hip-hop slang: sublime ): wackDerived terms
* be ill * fall ill * ill at ease * ill effects * illness * ill wind * lie ill in one's mouth * mentally ill * be taken illReferences
Adverb
(en adverb)- In both groups, however, we find copious and intricate speciation so that, often, species limits are narrow and ill defined.
- His inflexibility and blindness ill become a leader, for a leader must temper justice with mercy.
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- Is it because this supposes an undifferentiated violence towards others and oneself that I could ill imagine in a woman?
Synonyms
* illyAntonyms
* wellDerived terms
* bode ill * ill afford * ill-formed * ill-gotten * ill-thought-outNoun
(en noun)- That makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of.
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- Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, / Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill .
Derived terms
* for good or illReferences
* Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.Statistics
*Anagrams
* ----innocuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The shells fell for the most part innocuous ; an eyewitness saw children at play beside the flaming houses; not a soul was injured.
- Other things, too, there were, not less deadly though seemingly innocuous —dried fungi, traps intended for birds, beasts, fishes, reptiles, and insects.
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- Ruth Devlin announced that the song must wait, though it appeared to be innocuous and child-like in its sentiments.
- He sat down, and lighted a cigarette, casting about the while for an innocuous topic of conversation.