The difference between Dope and Ill

When used as nouns, dope means any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface, whereas ill means trouble.

When used as adjectives, dope means amazing, whereas ill means evil.


Dope is also verb with the meaning: to affect with drugs.

Ill is also adverb with the meaning: not well.

check bellow for the other definitions of Dope and Ill

  1. Dope as a noun (uncountable):

    Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

  2. Dope as a noun (uncountable):

    An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.

  3. Dope as a noun (uncountable, aeronautics):

    Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.

  4. Dope as a noun (uncountable, slang):

    Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.

  5. Dope as a noun (uncountable, slang):

    Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports.

    Examples:

    "What's the latest dope on the stock market?"

  6. Dope as a noun (uncountable, fireams):

    Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.

  7. Dope as a noun (countable, slang):

    A stupid person.

  8. Dope as a noun (US, Ohio):

    dessert topping

  1. Dope as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To affect with drugs.

  2. Dope as a verb (transitive):

    To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).

  3. Dope as a verb (transitive, electronics):

    To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).

  4. Dope as a verb (slang):

    To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions.

  5. Dope as a verb (slang, transitive, dated):

    To judge or guess; to predict the result of.

  1. Dope as an adjective (slang):

    Amazing.

    Examples:

    "That party was dope!"

  1. Ill as an adjective (obsolete):

    Evil; wicked (of people).

  2. Ill as an adjective (archaic):

    Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.

  3. Ill as an adjective:

    Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.

    Examples:

    "He suffered from ill treatment."

  4. Ill as an adjective:

    Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.

    Examples:

    "'ill manners; ill will"

  5. Ill as an adjective:

    Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.

    Examples:

    "I've been ill with the flu for the past few days."

  6. Ill as an adjective:

    Having an urge to vomit.

    Examples:

    "Seeing those pictures made me ill."

  7. Ill as an adjective (hip-hop slang):

    Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.

  8. Ill as an adjective (slang):

    Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.

    Examples:

    "That band was ill."

  1. Ill as an adverb:

    Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.

  1. Ill as a noun (often [[pluralize]]d):

    Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.

    Examples:

    "Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear."

  2. Ill as a noun:

    Harm or injury.

    Examples:

    "I wouldn't want you to do me ill."

  3. Ill as a noun:

    Evil; moral wrongfulness.

  4. Ill as a noun:

    A physical ailment; an illness.

    Examples:

    "I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills."

  5. Ill as a noun (US, slang):

    PCP, phencyclidine.