Difference between Tubercular and Ill

What is the difference between Tubercular and Ill?

Tubercular as an adjective is of, pertaining to, or having tuberculosis while Ill as an adjective is suffering from a disease.

Tubercular

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of, pertaining to, or having tuberculosis Tuberculate

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: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

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

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