Ill and Rot

Ill

Ill noun - That which is morally unacceptable.
Usage example: idealistic people who try to cure all of our society's ills

Rot and ill are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rot" instead a noun "Ill".

Nearby Word: illness

Rot

Rot noun - Language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense.

Ill and rot are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ill" instead a noun "Rot".

Nearby Words: rotted, rotting, rote

How words are described

good good ill good rot
critical critical ill critical rot
social social ill social rot
societal societal ill societal rot

Both words in one sentence

  • Speak Ill of the Dead: Tyrion states that he hopes Cersei has a nice dark hell to rot in when he learns of her death. Squee!
  • Western Animation / The Smurfs While Imperia and Thorick plan to move Prince Gerard to a dungeon where he will rot in obscurity for the rest of his life, she devises a cover story that the prince fell ill and would eventually die, granting his aunt the right to be queen in his place.
  • In the Star Trek verse we have the Eugenics Wars of the mid-1990s, the "sanctuary districts" of the early 21st century where the homeless, jobless, and mentally ill were left to rot, and the Postatomic Horror following World War III in the late 21st century.
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