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Pronunciation
IPA|/ɪl/
audio|en-us-ill.ogg|Audio (US)
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɪl|-ɪl

Adjective
en-adj

1. Suffering from a disease.

#: 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. bad|Bad, often connoting abuse or neglect.

#: He suffered from ill treatment.

1. context|hip-hop slang sublime|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. slang 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 (informal), unwell
(having an urge to vomit): disgusted, nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickened
(bad): bad, mal-
(in hip-hop slang: sublime): dope

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

Translations
trans-top|suffering from a disease
Dutch: ziek
Danish: syg
French: malade m|f
German: krank
Italian: malato
trans-mid
Polish: chory
Slovene: bolan m, bolna f, bolno n
Spanish: enfermo m, enferma f
Swedish: sjuk
Turkish: hasta
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trans-top|having an urge to vomit
Dutch: misselijk
French: éc�uré m, éc�urée f
German: übel
trans-mid
Spanish: mal, mareado
Swedish: illamående
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trans-top|bad
Danish: dårlig
French: mauvais m, mauvaise f
German: übel
trans-mid
Polish: z�y
Swedish: illa
Turkish: kötü
trans-bottom

trans-top|in hip-hop slang: sublime
trans-mid
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ttbc|Breton: klañv (1)
ttbc|Irish: tinn (1)
ttbc|Welsh: claf (1, 2), drwg (3, 4), gwael (3, 4)

Adverb
en-adv

1. Badly; very incompletely. Often hyphenated to form an adjectival phrase.

#: That move was ill-planned and ill-executed.

Antonyms
well

Derived terms
bode ill
ill afford
ill-formed
ill-gotten

Translations
trans-top|badly
French: mal
trans-mid
Polish: źle
Spanish: mal
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Noun
en-noun

1. context|often pluralized 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|Unfavorable remarks or opinions.

#: Do not speak ill of the dead.

Derived terms
for good or ill

Translations

trans-top|a problem
German: �bel n
trans-mid
Polish: problem m
trans-bottom

trans-top|something damaging
trans-mid
Polish: krzywda f
trans-bottom

References
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

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