Difference between Ill and Poorly

What is the difference between Ill and Poorly?

Ill as an adjective is suffering from a disease. while Poorly as an adjective is ill, unwell, sick

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: To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Poorly

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: in a poor manner

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: ill, unwell, sick

Example sentence: I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

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

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