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Ill   /ɪl/   Listen
Ill

adjective
(compar. iller; superl. illest)
1.
Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function.  Synonym: sick.
2.
Resulting in suffering or adversity.  "It's an ill wind that blows no good"
3.
Distressing.  "Of ill repute"
4.
Indicating hostility or enmity.  "Ill feelings" , "Ill will"
5.
Presaging ill fortune.  Synonyms: inauspicious, ominous.  "Ill predictions" , "My words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven" , "A dead and ominous silence prevailed" , "A by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
adverb
1.
('ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well.  Synonyms: badly, poorly.  "It ill befits a man to betray old friends" , "The car runs badly" , "He performed badly on the exam" , "The team played poorly" , "Ill-fitting clothes" , "An ill-conceived plan"
2.
Unfavorably or with disapproval.  Synonym: badly.  "Thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
3.
With difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly.
noun
1.
An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining.  Synonyms: ailment, complaint.



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"Ill" Quotes from Famous Books



... at him violently. He was ill-balanced. The pull brought him to the floor, but Elise did not loose her ...
— Blue Goose • Frank Lewis Nason
... since it is certain that they produce innumerable calamities. The weak or cowardly man lives in perpetual cares and agonies; he undermines his health by the dread, oftentimes ill founded, of attacks and dangers: and this dread which is an evil, is not a remedy; it renders him, on the contrary, the slave of him who wishes to oppress him; and by the servitude and debasement of all his faculties, ...
— The Ruins • C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney
... stone-wall, from which I arise wan and shrunken, baked through and through, but svelte enough to make the youngest tomcat envious. (Coming back to the present with a murderous look at THE LITTLE DOG.) Death to you, ill-smelling beast, for having evoked these by-gone joys! Aren't you going to disappear, that I may come down from this cold pedestal, where my paws are ...
— Barks and Purrs • Colette Willy, aka Colette
... about the wedding. Her letter was a long one, evidently written in great agitation and with words blotted and underscored. Its subject was the man she loved, George Taylor. She was so anxious about him. Did I remember, that night when my mother was ill, how she had spoken of him to me and asked if I had noticed how troubled and ...
— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln
... four foot nothing, he looks like a yard of pack-thread, he would fight me for an ill-washed shirt and a pair of holes with bits of sock round them, and he ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke


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