What does ill-treated mean?

ill-treated means "subjected to cruel treatment".

How many syllables are in ill-treated?

ill-treated has 4 syllables and divides as ill--tre-a-ted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ill-treated?

Close synonyms include abused, maltreated, mistreated. 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-treated a common word?

ill-treated 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.

Ill-treated — meaning, 3 synonyms and examples

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
subjected to cruel treatment
“an abused wife”
Synonymsabused maltreated mistreated
Similarbattered

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What does ill-treated mean?: ill-treated means "subjected to cruel treatment".
How many syllables are in ill-treated?: ill-treated has 4 syllables and divides as ill--tre-a-ted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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