ill-conditioned

[ il-kuhn-dish-uhnd ]

adjective

1. in a surly or bad mood, state, etc.
2. not in a good or peak condition.

Other Words From

• ill-con·ditioned·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of ill-conditioned¹

First recorded in 1605–15

Example Sentences

It’s debatable whether Torres would have played as early had this not been a World Cup year he was trying to gear his ill-conditioned body for.

From Seattle Times

An inspector should be appointed specially for this quarter of the town, who should direct all his energies to seeing that the best principles of ventilation, smoke-consumption, drainage, use of disinfectants, &c. &c., are adopted throughout his domain; and all ill-conditioned recusants against the decrees of the local senate should be mulcted in heavy damages.

From Project Gutenberg

As dusk drew down, and as the calm of night was broken only by the rumbling echoes and tremors of the work in the enemy's sap, we threw out a working party of some two hundred natives, starving and ill-conditioned, but the best that we could procure, intending to make the effort to check once and for all the advance of the Boers.

From Project Gutenberg

It is a depressing spectacle, and it is well just now to close one's eyes to everything—to the famine which is stalking in our midst, to the fever which is raging round the outposts, to the ill-conditioned horses and cattle, to the weary, patient women, to the children who, unfortunately fortunate, have survived so much distress, and yet if one looks a little forward it is difficult to see that the remedy will be forthcoming.

From Project Gutenberg

He rustled the flaccid, ill-conditioned leaves and found the place.

From Project Gutenberg