ill

Plural: ills

Noun

• A problem or misfortune; a harmful condition.
• an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
• Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
• Harm or injury.
• Evil; moral wrongfulness.
• A physical ailment; an illness.
• PCP, phencyclidine.

Adjective

• affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
  • "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

Adjective Satellite

• resulting in suffering or adversity
  • "ill effects"
  • "it's an ill wind that blows no good"
• distressing
  • "ill manners"
  • "of ill repute"
• indicating hostility or enmity
  • "you certainly did me an ill turn"
  • "ill feelings"
  • "ill will"
• presaging ill fortune; ; ; - P.B.Shelley
  • "ill omens"
  • "ill predictions"

Adverb

• (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
  • "he was ill prepared"
  • "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"
  • "ill-fitting clothes"
  • "an ill-conceived plan"
• unfavorably or with disapproval
  • "tried not to speak ill of the dead"
• with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly
  • "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"

Adj

• Evil; wicked (of people).
• Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
• Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
• Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
• Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
• Nauseated; having an urge to vomit.
• 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.
• Unwise; not a good idea.
• Bad-tempered.

Adv

• Not well; imperfectly, badly

Verb

• To behave aggressively.

Examples

• Despite his strategic ILLS, he managed to eke out a win in the final turn.
• He suffered from ill treatment.
• I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.
• I wouldn't want you to do me ill.
• I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.
• ill manners; ill will
• mentally ill people
• Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.
• Seeing those pictures made me ill.
• That band was ill.
• This is the illest beat I've ever heard.

Synonyms

ailment, badly, complaint, inauspicious, ominous, poorly, sick, Pat and Mick, ailing, bad, crank, crook, diseased, disgusted, dope, green about the gills, icky, ill, illy, indisposed, infirm, like death warmed over, mal-, maladive, mawkish, nauseated, nauseous, off one's feed, on the Pat and Mick, out of sorts, queer, sick as a dog, sick as a parrot, sicken, sickish, sickly, under the weather, unhealthy, unwell, valetudinarian, valetudinary

Antonyms

well, fine, good, hale, healthy, in good health, wack

Anagrams of ill