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I've worn some particularly baggy jeans and cowboys boot combinations after coming back from Austin, Texas. This was ill-advised.
Jamie Cullum

Meaning of "ill-advised" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ILL-ADVISED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ILL-ADVISED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ill-Advised is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ILL-ADVISED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ill-advised in the English dictionary

The definition of ill-advised in the dictionary is acting without reasonable care or thought. Other definition of ill-advised is badly thought out; not or insufficiently considered.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ILL-ADVISED

ill will
ill-advisedly
ill-affected
ill-assorted
ill-behaved
ill-bred
ill-breeding
ill-concealed
ill-conceived
ill-considered
ill-defined
ill-disposed
ill-equipped
ill-fated
ill-favored
ill-favoredly
ill-favoured
ill-favouredly
ill-feeling
ill-fitting

WORDS THAT END LIKE ILL-ADVISED

advised
braised
bruised
digitised
disguised
misavised
poised
practised
promised
surprised
unadvertised
unadvised
unauthorised
unorganised
unrealised
unrevised
unsupervised
well advised
well-advised
well-organised

Synonyms and antonyms of ill-advised in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ILL-ADVISED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ill-advised» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ill-advised

Translation of «ill-advised» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ILL-ADVISED

Find out the translation of ill-advised to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ill-advised from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ill-advised» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不明智的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mal aconsejado
570 millions of speakers

English

ill-advised
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अविचारी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير حكيم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

опрометчивый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mal aconselhado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অবিবেকী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

malavisée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak senonoh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schlecht beraten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無分別な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

경솔한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gerah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vụng về
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தவறான பரிந்துரைப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाईट सल्ला दिला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tedbirsiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mal consigliato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nierozważny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

необачний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prost sfătuit -
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απερίσκεπτη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onbesonne
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oklok
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dårlig råd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ill-advised

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ILL-ADVISED»

The term «ill-advised» is regularly used and occupies the 77.801 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ILL-ADVISED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ill-advised

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3 QUOTES WITH «ILL-ADVISED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ill-advised.
1
Elvis Costello
People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.
2
Jamie Cullum
I've worn some particularly baggy jeans and cowboys boot combinations after coming back from Austin, Texas. This was ill-advised.
3
Christina Hoff Sommers
I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ILL-ADVISED»

Discover the use of ill-advised in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ill-advised and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ill-Advised: Presidential Health and Public Trust
In Ill-Advised: Presidential Health and Public Trust, now available in paperback, noted historian Robert H. Ferrell presents powerful evidence of frightening medical scandals in the White House.
Robert H. Ferrell, 1996
2
King of the Mild Frontier
And once you have read about Chris Crutcher's life as a dateless, broken-toothed, scabbed-over, God-fearing dweeb, and once you have contemplated his ascension to the buckskin-upholstered throne of the King of the Mild Frontier, you will ...
Chris Crutcher, 2009
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
ill-advised. F. illicit. wANTONYMS easily. 4 if things go ill, it's allover: badly, adversely, unsuccessfully, unfavourably; unfortunately, unluckily, hard, inauspiciously. wANTONYMS well, according to plan. 5 we are ill prepared for floods: ...
Maurice Waite, 2009
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A Valency Dictionary of English: A Corpus-based Analysis of ...
D3 + wh-CLP,,i, To blame shoppers for the food crisis is to ignore how poorly the state-run food industry serves its customers. ill-advised adjective P1 attr Kenworthy climbed the wall - which P6 would have been an ill-advised action by a ...
Thomas Herbst, 2004
5
Don Quixote
The landlord taking them out handed them to him to read, and he perceived they were a work of about eight sheets of manuscript, with, in large letters at the beginning, the title of Novel of the Ill-advised Curiosity. The curate read three or four ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 2004
6
Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England
4 Ethelred the Ill-advised During the reign of Edgar's younger 57 NORTHUMBRIA.
Richard Fletcher, 2004
7
The Cervantes Encyclopedia: A-K
In Rufidn 2, the allegorical figure who appears on stage to inquire of Comedia why she is so different as to be virtually unrecognizable these days. Curioso impertinente, El (Curioso); The Story of Ill-Advised Curiosity. The anonymous story read ...
Howard Mancing, 2004
8
Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction
What this history shows is that, at least when it comes to economics, Popper's claims seem to have been falsified as descriptions and to have been ill-advised as prescriptions. The history of Newtonian mechanics offers the same verdict on ...
Alexander Rosenberg, 2005
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A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel ...
With difficulty, not easily. Ill-advised, a. Injudicious, unwise, imprudent, ridiculous, absurd, foolish, ill-judged. Illation, n. Inference, deduction, conclusion. Illative, a. Inferential. Ill-bred, a. Impolite, uncivil, uncour- teous, discourteous, uncourtly, ...
Richard Soule, 1871
10
The Snark Handbook: The Sex Edition : Innuendo, Irony, and ...
Here are sharply witty personal observations, jokes, quotations, he-said-she-said snarks, and much much more. For a taste of what's to come: * "I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.
Lawrence Dorfman, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ILL-ADVISED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ill-advised is used in the context of the following news items.
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10 ill-advised fashion tips for a Tinder date | BreakingNews.ie
I imagine you're here because you've finally grown tired of swiping left/crippling loneliness and have decided to go on your first Tinder date? «BreakingNews.ie, Jul 15»
2
Hungry crocodile attacks elephant - but bites off more than it can …
But its decision to attack an 8ft-tall adult elephant - roughly 10 times its size - proved ill-advised after one of the large animal's pals intervened, ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
BBC Sport - Inverness CT 0-1 Astra Giurgiu
Lopez's attempts to make an impact were perhaps ill-advised as the Spaniard came deep repeatedly but struggled to influence the action. «BBC Sport, Jul 15»
4
Jürgen Habermas's verdict on the EU/Greece debt deal – full transcript
First, the outcome of the talks is ill-advised. Even if one were to consider the strangulating terms of the deal the right course of action, one ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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50 forgotten sci-fi films from the 1990s | Den of Geek
An ill-advised sci-fi comedy in which aliens land on Earth at Halloween and are mistaken for trick-or-treaters by the inhabitants of a small town. «Den Of Geek, Jul 15»
6
What Do LA Clippers Need from Josh Smith's Arrival? | Bleacher …
But their blunders can cost teams possessions just as much as—sometimes more than—an ill-advised open three or silly mid-range jumper. «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
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Joyce McMillan: Has trust in police gone for good? - The Scotsman
And it may well be that the move was ill-advised from the outset; in essence, it cannot be entirely healthy to have a single large police ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»
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Chris Rogers' hundred is perfect retort | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo
Next, shortly after arrival in the UK, the story of his ill-advised attempt to sell hospitality packages to Lord's had Rogers being asked if he ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»
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Kitt skits and Baywatch pathos: have you been watching Hoff the …
After the biopic stalls, there is a series of ill-advised endorsement deals to navigate while the Hoff nurtures charitable and even political ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Why the NY Giants Should Move on from Jason Pierre-Paul …
While the initial logic to tag Pierre-Paul made sense, he's since experienced a significant event as a result of some ill-advised interaction with ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»

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