ill service

Questions about ill service

What is another word for ill service?

It depends which ill service you mean. In the sense “an act intended to help that turns out badly”, the synonyms are disservice, ill turn. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of ill service?

WordNet records no antonym for ill service. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for ill service come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of ill service

• Full entry for ill serviceAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for ill serviceWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.