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Definitions: Ill-advised |
Ill-advisedAdjective1. Without careful prior deliberation or counsel; "ill-advised efforts"; it would be ill-advised to accept the offer"; "took the unadvised measure of going public with the accusations". 2. Lacking or showing a lack of careful deliberation; unwise; "ill-advised efforts"; "ill-advised laws". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ill-advised" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonym: Ill-advisedSynonym: unadvised (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: well-advised (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imbecility Folly | Foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine; ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu; inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical; extravagant; (nonsensical); sleeveless, idle; pointless, useless; inexpedient; frivolous; (trivial). |
Inexpedience | Ill-contrived, ill-advised; unsatisfactory; unprofitable; unsubservient; (useless); inopportune; (unseasonable); out of place, in the wrong place; improper, unseemly. |
Unskillfulness | Unadvised; ill-advised, misadvised; ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted; unguided, misguided; misconducted, foolish, wild; infelicitous; penny wise and pound foolish; (inconsistent). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ill-advised |
| English words defined with "ill-advised": unadvised. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ill-advised": Fountain. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ireland | The U.S. exporter would be ill-advised, after having appointed a local representative, to provide only product literature and samples and then expect to achieve optimum sales results. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Harry Belafonte | If I was them, I would use the platform to speak out against the ill-advised policies of the administration. I would go as far as inviting to be fired, if that's what happens. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Ill-advised" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ill-advised" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 77 | 37,929 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ill-advised"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | jo i arsyeshëm. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неблагоразумен (ill-judged, imprudent, injudicious, unadvised, unwise), прибързан (brash, hasty, headlong, impetuous, light hearted, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, premature, previous, rash, slapdash, sudden, unthinking, untimely, unwary). (various references) | |
Czech | se špatnou radou. (various references) | |
Finnish | huonosti harkittu (ill-judged), epäviisas (imprudent, inadvisable, unwise). (various references) | |
German | unratsam (inadvisable, inexpedient, unadvisable), unklug (foolish, impolitic, imprudent, imprudently, inexpedient, injudicious, misguided, unintelligent, unsound, unwise, unwisely), schlechtberaten. (various references) | |
Greek | κακοσύστατοσ, ασύνετοσ (impolitic, imprudent, inalienability, indiscreet, inexpedient, injudicious, unwise). (various references) | |
Hungarian | meggondolatlan (blindfold, blundering, foolhardy, hare-brained, hasty, headlong, heedless, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, impolitic, imprudent, impudent, incautious, injudicious, precipitate, rash, reckless, thoughtless, to lack ballast, unadvised, unreflecting, unthinking, unwary). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tidak bijaksana (indiscreet, unwise). (various references) | |
Italian | sconsiderato (hasty, ill-considered, ill-judged, inconsiderate, light minded, madcap, rash, thoughtless, unmindful, unthought), malaccorto (imprudent, misguided, rash, unwise). (various references) | |
Manx | neuchreeney (foolhardy, improvident, imprudent, injudicious), donney (bad, bad of food, calamitous, inauspicious, unfortunate, very ill, woeful). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ill-adviseday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | adoecer (crock, fall ill, languish, sicken). (various references) | |
Romanian | imprudent (imprudent, incautious, rash, unadvised, unwise), necugetat (foolish, ill-advisedly, inadvertent, mad, precipitate, rashly, reckless, thoughtless, thoughtlessly). (various references) | |
Russian | неблагоразумный (imprudent, indiscreet, inexpedient, unreasonable, unwise). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nesmotren (heedless, improvident, imprudent, inadvertent, incautious, reckless, unwary), nepromišljen (imprudent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, thoughtless, unadvised, unthinking). (various references) | |
Spanish | inconsiderado (hasty, inconsiderate, reckless, thoughtless). (various references) | |
Swedish | illa genomtänkt (ill-considered), oklok (ill-judged, impolitic, imprudent, inadvisable, inexpedient, unadvised, unwise), oförnuftig (ill-judged, senseless, unreasonable, unreasoning). (various references) | |
Thai | ไม่สมเหตุสมผล, ไม่รอบคอบ. (various references) | |
Turkish | ihtiyatsız (heedless, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, unguarded, unwary), tedbirsiz (ill-judged, improvident, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, injudicious, unadvised, unwary), düşüncesiz (blind, blindfold, brusque, careless, flighty, freewheeling, gauche, half-baked, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heady, ill-judged, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, out of turn, rash, reckless, slapdash, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, unmindful, unreflecting, unthinking, wanton, without tact, witless), akılsız (buggy, bughouse, emptyheaded, fatuous, feather brain, feather-brained, fool, foolish, goofy, gormless, inexpedient, irrational, mindless, preposterous, unintelligent, unreasoning, unwise, vacant, witless). (various references) | |
Ukranian | нерозважливий (hotheaded), необачний (harebrained, hasteful, hasty, headlong, hot-brained, imprudent, overbold, over-hasty, precipitant, slap bang, slapdash). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhẹ dạ (credulous, frivolous, light), khờ dại (half-witted, idiotic, idiotical, ill-judged, imbecile, insipient, lubberly, shiftless, sillily, spoonily). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-i-i-l-l-s-v" | |
-3 letters: advised, dailies, daisied, dallied, dallies, devisal, dialled, dillies, divides, laddies, liaised, sallied, sedilia, vialled. | |
-4 letters: addles, advise, aisled, allied, allies, dalles, davies, deasil, devils, dialed, didies, dilled, divide, ideals, iliads, laddie, ladies, ladled, ladles, liaise, lilied, lilies, saddle, sailed, salved, sialid, sidled, silvae, slaved, vailed, valise, vialed, villae, villas, visaed. | |
-5 letters: addle, aided, aides, ailed, aisle, alive, aside, dales, deads, deals, dedal, deils, delis, dells, devas, devil, dials, didie, dills, divas, dived, dives, evils, ideal, ideas, idled, idles, ileal, iliad, ilial, isled, ivied, ivies, laded, lades, ladle, lased, laved, laves, leads, lisle, lived, lives, livid, salve, saved, selva, sided, sidle, silva, slave, slide, vails, vales, valid, valse, veals, veils, velds, vials, villa, villi, vills, vised. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6C 6C 2D 61 64 76 69 73 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01100001 01100100 01110110 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l l - a d v i s e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 006C 002D 0061 0064 0076 0069 0073 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4378781567708875857170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Spoken 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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