English Words: I

17,902 words · Page 38 of 359

illadj

Evil; wicked (of people).

ill at easeadj

Anxious; unsure; uneasy.

ill effectnoun

A detrimental or harmful effect.

ill famenoun

Disrepute; notoriety.

ill feelingnoun

A feeling of animosity or resentment.

ill healthnoun

A state of illness, or bad health.

ill lucknoun

Bad luck; misluck; misfortune.

ill news spreads apaceproverb

Bad news circulates quickly because people tend to gossip.

ill reputenoun

Bad reputation; notoriety.

ill willnoun

A spiteful or vengeful attitude; a grudge; dislike.

ill-advisedadj

Carried out without the benefit of wise counsel or careful deliberation, or carried out with unwise counsel.

ill-advisedlyadv

In an ill-advised manner.

ill-assortedadj

Badly matched, or unmatched.

ill-begottenadj

Of inferior parentage.

ill-behavedadj

badly behaved; exhibiting bad behaviour.

ill-beingnoun

The state of being ill, unhealthy, or unhappy; misery; miserableness.

ill-bodingadj

Which bodes evil; portending bad things.

ill-bredadj

ill-mannered and unrefined because of a lack of upbringing or education

ill-concealedadj

Not well concealed; poorly disguised.

ill-conceivedadj

Not properly planned or thought through.

ill-definedadj

Poorly defined; blurry, out of focus; lacking a clear boundary.

ill-definednessnoun

The quality of being ill-defined.

ill-deservedadj

undeserved, unwarranted

ill-disposedadj

Not much disposed towards somebody or something; unsympathetic.

ill-easenoun

A feeling or state of uneasiness; a lack of comfort or surety; discomfort or anxiousness.

ill-equippedadj

Not well equipped; lacking important resources and supplies.

ill-famedadj

Having a bad reputation.

ill-fatedadj

unlucky; doomed.

ill-fatedlyadv

In a bad fated, foreordained or predetermined manner; in a way established in advance by bad fate.

ill-favoredadj

Unattractive or offensive to the eye; ugly.

ill-favourednessnoun

The quality of being ill-favoured; ugliness.

ill-fittingadj

poorly fitted

ill-formednessnoun

The property of being ill-formed.

ill-fortunenoun

Bad luck; misfortune

ill-foundedadj

Unsubstantiated, not based on fact or evidence.

ill-gottenadj

Obtained improperly or illegally.

ill-gotten gainsnoun

Money or other property acquired dishonestly.

ill-informedadj

Poorly informed; ignorant.

ill-intentionedadj

Having bad intentions; malevolent

ill-judgedadj

Badly judged, unwise, rash.

ill-judgedlyadv

In an ill-judged manner; unwisely

ill-manneredadj

Having bad manners; impolite.

ill-matchedadj

not well suited to each other; poorly matched.

ill-naturedlyadv

In an ill-natured manner.

ill-naturednessnoun

The state of being ill-natured.

ill-omenedadj

Having a bad omen; inauspicious; unlucky.

ill-placedadj

Badly, mistakenly, or unfortunately placed.

ill-posedadj

Not well-posed.

ill-preparedadj

Not well prepared. Not ready, or not in condition to do a task.

ill-receivedadj

Poorly received; not enjoying the positive reception expected.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter I contains 17,902 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 359 pages, and you are currently viewing page 38. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "I" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.