ill health

Questions about ill health

What does ill health mean?

ill health means "a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain".

What is another word for ill health?

Close synonyms include unhealthiness, health problem. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of ill health?

The recorded antonyms are good health.

Is ill health a common word?

ill health is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.