Ill vs Wrong - 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.
* (William Shakespeare)
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Evil; moral wrongfulness.
* (John Dryden)
A physical ailment; an illness.
Unfavorable remarks or opinions.
(US, slang) PCP, phencyclidine.
Incorrect or untrue.
* 1592 , (William Shakespeare), Richard III , Act II, Scene I:
Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
Immoral, not good, bad.
Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
Not working; out of order.
Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
(obsolete) Twisted; wry.
(informal) In a way that isn't right; done incorrectly; wrongly.
Something that is immoral or not good.
An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
* (rfdate) John Dowland:
The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
* 1592', , ''Henry VI'', Part III, Act IV, Scene I, line 101. — I blame not her: she could say little less; She had the ' wrong .
The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
* 1607', , ''Timon of Athens'', Act IV, Scene III, line 28. — Thus much of this will make Black white, foul fair, ' wrong right, Base noble, old young, coward valiant.
To treat unjustly; to injure or harm.
* The dealer wronged us by selling us this lemon of a car.
* 1591', , ''Henry VI'', Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 109. — Thou dost then ' wrong me, as that slaughterer doth Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
* 1597', , ''Henry IV'', Part II, Act IV, Scene I, line 121. — ... And might by no suit gain our audience. When we are ' wrong'd and would unfold our griefs, We are denied access unto his person Even by those men that most have done us wrong.
To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.
* 1598', , ''Julius Caesar'', Act III, Scene II, line 121. — O masters! if I were dispos'd to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who (you all know) are honorable men. I will not do them wrong; I rather choose To '''wrong''' the dead, to '''wrong''' myself and you, Than I will ' wrong such honorable men.
Ill is a synonym of wrong.
As adjectives the difference between ill and wrong
is that ill is (label) evil; wicked (of people) while wrong is incorrect or untrue.As adverbs the difference between ill and wrong
is that ill is not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly while wrong is (informal) in a way that isn't right; done incorrectly; wrongly.As nouns the difference between ill and wrong
is that ill is (often pluralized) trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity while wrong is something that is immoral or not good.As a verb wrong is
to treat unjustly; to injure or harm.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
* ----wrong
English
Adjective
- Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong .
- Among this princely heap, if any here / By false intelligence or wrong surmise / Hold me a foe
- You're wrong : he's not Superman at all.
- It is wrong to lie.
- A bikini is the wrong thing to wear on a cold day.
- Something is wrong with my cellphone .
- Don't cry, honey. Tell me what's wrong .
- a wrong nose
Usage notes
* The single-word comparative and superlative forms wronger and wrongest are no longer in common use, except humorously; rather, the locutions “more wrong” and “most wrong” are preferred. * When wrong is used attributively, before a noun, the noun is usually treated as definite, using the article the; hence, for example, one says, “I dialed the wrong number”, “he gave the wrong answer”, and “she took the wrong approach”, even though there are many possible wrong numbers, answers, and approaches, of which only one was dialed, given, or taken.Synonyms
* injurious * unjust * faulty * detrimental * unfit * unsuitable *Derived terms
* wrength * wrongly * wrongfulAntonyms
* rightQuotations
* 2007 January 3, Ken Miller, “The Collapse of Intelligent Design: Will the next Monkey Trial be in Ohio?”, Case Western University, Strosacker Auditorium *: that statement is wrong. Now that's not an incidental statement, that is the heart and soul of the Intelligent Design argument, and in this case it turns out to be wrong. Now it's even wronger than that [laughter ] because it turns out that not only do these proteins make up the Type-III Secretory Apparatus but almost every protein in the bacerial flagellum is strongly homologous to proteins that have other functions elsewhere in the cell.Adverb
(en adverb)- I spelled several names wrong in my address book.
Noun
(wikipedia wrong) (en noun)- Injustice is a heinous wrong .
- Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak? Shall I call her good when she proves unkind?