ill

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