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ILL-BEING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ill-being mean?
• ILL-BEING (noun)
The noun ILL-BEING has 1 sense:
1. lack of prosperity or happiness or health
Familiarity information: ILL-BEING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lack of prosperity or happiness or health
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("ill-being" is a kind of...):
adversity; hard knocks; hardship (a state of misfortune or affliction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ill-being"):
miserableness; misery; wretchedness (a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune)
Antonym:
well-being (a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous)
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