Difference between Ill and Paralytic

What is the difference between Ill and Paralytic?

Ill as an adjective is suffering from a disease. while Paralytic as an adjective is affected by paralysis, paralysed.

Ill

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Suffering from a disease. Having an urge to vomit. Bad, often connoting abuse or neglect. Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill, comparative iller, superlative illest.] Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Badly; very incompletely. Often hyphenated to form an adjectival phrase. Scarcely.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity. Harm or injury. Evil; moral wrongfulness. A physical ailment; an illness. Unfavorable remarks or opinions. PCP.

Example sentence: It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Paralytic

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Somebody suffering from paralysis.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Affected by paralysis, paralysed.Pertaining to paralysis.Very drunk.

We hope you now know whether to use Ill or Paralytic in your sentence.

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