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- (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