Ill
Ill adjective - Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function.
Usage example: ill from the monotony of his suffering
Tubercular and ill are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tubercular" instead an adjective "Ill".
Nearby Word: illness
Tubercular
Tubercular adjective - Constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus.
Usage example: tubercular meningitis
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He makes the rash decision to hire as his lawyer one Hiruta, an obviously third rate attorney whose "office" is a wooden shack on a rooftop, mainly because he sympathizes with Hiruta's tubercular, terminally ill daughter Masako.
Source: Film / Scandal (1950)
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