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ill will

ill will noun: a spiteful or vengeful attitude; a grudge; dislike.

Noun

ill will (uncountable)

  1. A spiteful or vengeful attitude; a grudge; dislike.
    • The losing side bore no ill will toward the winners.
    Synonyms:
    bad blood

ill will meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

ill will in Hindi

ill-disposed attitude
बैर bair, विद्वेष vidveṣ

ill will in Tamil

பகைமை எண்ணம், தீய எண்ணம்

ill will in Urdu

بیر, دشمنی

ill will in Malayalam

hostility, animosity, enmity
ദ്വേഷം, ദ്വേഷണം, അസൂയ, ദൗരാത്മ്യം, ദ്രോഹം, ദുഷ്ടബുദ്ധി
More languagesFewer languages
ill will in Kannada
ಹಗೆತನ, ಎದುರುನೆಲೆ, ಅಸುರು
ill will in Sanskrit
इरस् iras

Synonyms of ill will

Forms of ill will

alternative formill-will

Origin of ill will

From Middle English ill will, il wille, ill wille, equivalent to ill + will.

Words formed from ill will

Questions about ill will

What does ill will mean?
Ill will means a spiteful or vengeful attitude; a grudge; dislike.
What is ill will in Hindi?
Ill will in Hindi is बैर (bair), विद्वेष (vidveṣ). See Ill will meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is ill will?
Ill will is a noun.

Words near ill will in the dictionary

  1. ill news spreads apace
  2. ill off
  3. ill repute
  4. ill turn
  5. ill turns
  6. ill will
  7. ill-adapted
  8. ill-advised
  9. ill-advisedly
  10. ill-affected
  11. ill-assorted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ill will (page history and authors); ill will (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ill will (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ill will (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ill will (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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