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vkhu

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"The ill-advised course of action ended up costing the company millions of dollars"

Why does it say "ill-advised"? Isn't "ill" supposed to be an adjective? If adjectives can be used there then is it possible to replace that word with bad-advised or poor-advised?
 

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"The ill-advised course of action ended up costing the company millions of dollars"

Why does it say "ill-advised"? Isn't "ill" supposed to be an adjective? If adjectives can be used there then is it possible to replace that word with bad-advised or poor-advised?

"ill-advised" is a compound adjective. "poor-advised" and "bad-advised" are not.
 

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You can be ill-advised or well-advised. As bhaisahab said, the word is a compound adjective. Normally how you were advised would be followed by an adverb.

I was advised well.
I was advised badly.

However, we can change the word order:

I was well advised.
I was badly advised.

I got good advice.
I got bad advice.

If we want to use them as compound adjectives:

That was a well-advised plan.
That was an ill-advised plan.

I can't give you a good explanation as to why well/good become "well-advised" but badly/bad become "ill-advised" but the fact remains that that is how it works.
 
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