ill
/ɪl/
Dictionary
noun
- (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
"Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear."
- Harm or injury.
"I wouldn't want you to do me ill."
- Evil; moral wrongfulness.
- A physical ailment; an illness.
"I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills."
- PCP, phencyclidine.
adjective
- Evil; wicked (of people).
- Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
"He suffered from ill treatment."
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
"ill manners; ill will"
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
"I've been ill with the flu for the past few days."
- Having an urge to vomit.
"Seeing those pictures made me ill."
- (hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
"That band was ill."
- Unwise; not a good idea.
adverb
- Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.
Synonyms:illy
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