ill service

1. 1.

   an act intended to help that turns out badly

   “he did them a disservice”

   Synonymsdisserviceill turn

   Broaderinjury

Questions about ill service

What does ill service mean?

ill service means "an act intended to help that turns out badly".

What is another word for ill service?

Close synonyms include disservice, ill turn. 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.

Is ill service a common word?

ill service 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.