Ill

Adjective

 * 1)  Evil; wicked (of people).
 * 2)  Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
 * 3) * 1999,, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 2:
 * ‘Go bring her. It is ill to keep a lady waiting.’
 * 1) Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
 * He suffered from ill treatment.
 * 1) Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
 * I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.
 * 1) Having an urge to vomit.
 * Seeing those pictures made me ill.
 * 1)  Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill, comparative iller, superlative illest.]
 * Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?" — Biggie Smalls, The What, 1994.
 * 1)  Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill).  Generally used indirectly with to be.
 * That band was ill.

Synonyms

 * (suffering from a disease): diseased, poorly (UK), sick, under the weather, unwell
 * (having an urge to vomit): disgusted, nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickened
 * (bad): bad, mal-
 * (in hip-hop slang: sublime): dope
 * See also Thesaurus:diseased

Antonyms

 * (suffering from a disease): fine, hale, healthy, in good health, well
 * (having an urge to vomit):
 * (bad): good
 * (in hip-hop slang: sublime): wack

Derived terms

 * be ill
 * fall ill
 * ill at ease
 * ill effects


 * illness
 * ill wind
 * mentally ill
 * be taken ill

Adverb

 * 1) Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.
 * In both groups, however, we find copious and intricate speciation so that, often, species limits are narrow and ill defined.
 * 1) * 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 541:
 * His inflexibility and blindness ill become a leader, for a leader must temper justice with mercy.
 * 1) * 2006, Julia Borossa (translator), Monique Canto-Sperber (quoted author), in Libération, 2002 February 2, quoted in Élisabeth Badinter (quoting author), Dead End Feminism, Polity, ISBN 9780745633800, page 40:
 * Is it because this supposes an undifferentiated violence towards others and oneself that I could ill imagine in a woman?
 * Is it because this supposes an undifferentiated violence towards others and oneself that I could ill imagine in a woman?

Synonyms

 * illy

Antonyms

 * well

Derived terms

 * bode ill
 * ill afford


 * ill-formed
 * ill-gotten

Noun

 * 1)  Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
 * Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.
 * 1) Harm or injury.
 * I wouldn't want you to do me ill.
 * 1) Evil; moral wrongfulness.
 * Sociopaths do not seem to grasp the difference between good and ill.
 * 1) A physical ailment; an illness.
 * I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.
 * 1) Unfavorable remarks or opinions.
 * Do not speak ill of the dead.
 * 1) 🇺🇸 PCP, phencyclidine

Derived terms

 * for good or ill

Adverbs for Ill
seriously; desperately; slightly; temporarily; violently; honestly; strangely; fatally; mortally; naturally; extremely; cruelly; incurably; terribly; irrecoverably; unhappily; unfortunately; woefully; recently.

Thesaurus
abomination, affection, ailing, ailment, amiss, apocalyptic, atrocity, bad, badly, baleful, bane, baneful, befoulment, below par, black, blight, bodeful, boding, complaint, condition, corruption, criminal, critically ill, crying evil, damage, damaging, dark, defilement, deleterious, despoliation, destruction, detriment, detrimental, dire, disadvantageously, disagreeable, disagreeably, discourteous, disease, disorder, disrespectful, doomful, down, dreary, evil, evil-starred, evilly, faint, faintish, fateful, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible, foreboding, gloomy, grievance, harm, havoc, hurt, hurtful, ill-boding, ill-bred, ill-fated, ill-mannered, ill-omened, ill-starred, impertinent, impolite, improper, in danger, inaccurate, inauspicious, incline, inconveniently, indisposed, inexpedient, infection, inferior, infirmity, inhospitable, inhospitably, inimical, injurious, injury, invalid, laid low, lowering, malady, malevolent, menacing, mischief, mortally ill, not quite right, of evil portent, off-color, ominous, out of sorts, outrage, peccant, poison, pollution, portending, portentous, rocky, rude, seedy, sick, sick unto death, sickish, sickness, sinful, sinister, somber, syndrome, taken ill, the worst, threatening, toxin, unadvantageously, unaffectionate, unaffectionately, unamiable, unamiably, unbenign, unbenignant, unbenignantly, unbenignly, uncompassionate, uncompassionately, uncompassioned, uncordial, uncordially, under the weather, unfavorable, unfortunate, unfriendly, ungenial, ungenially, ungracious, ungraciously, unhandily, unhealthy, unkind, unkindly, unloving, unlovingly, unlucky, unpleasant, unprofitably, unpromising, unpropitious, unrewardingly, unskillful, unsympathetic, unsympathetically, unsympathizing, untoward, unwell, uselessly, venom, vexation, vicious, wicked, with difficulty, woe, wrong, wrongly

Etymology
ille ‘evil, wicked’, from illr: (adj.), illa: (adv.), ilt: (noun) (whence Danish ild:), from, from - (whence Latin ulcus: ‘sore’, Ancient Greek undefined: ‘wound, ulcer’, Sanskrit undefined: ‘hemorrhoids’).

Adjective

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 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: хворы
 * Bulgarian:
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 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ავადმყოფი, სნეული
 * German:
 * Greek:, άρρωστη
 * Hebrew: חולה
 * Hindi: बीमार
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 아픈


 * Latvian: slims, sasirdzis
 * Lithuanian: sergantis
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: doente
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: болестан
 * Roman: bolestan
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: bolan, bolna , bolno
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ป่วย
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: хворий
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: bệnh
 * Volapük: malädik
 * Volapük: malädik


 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,


 * Norwegian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: illamående


 * Armenian:
 * Danish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,


 * Norwegian:
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 * Turkish:


 * : klañv (1)


 * : claf (1, 2), drwg (3, 4), gwael (3, 4)

Adverb

 * French:
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 * Spanish:

Noun

 * German:


 * Polish:


 * Volapük: maläd


 * Polish: krzywda

Anagrams

 * Lil, li'l, lil

Adjective

 * 1) ill
 * 2) bad, evil, wicked
 * 3) harsh, severe
 * 4) profane
 * 5) difficult, troublesome
 * 6) awkward, unskilled

Adverb

 * 1) ill
 * 2) badly, evilly, wickedly
 * 3) harshly, severely
 * 4) profanely
 * 5) with difficulty
 * 6) awkwardly, inexpertly

Noun

 * 1) ill
 * 2) ill will, malice