ill

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/ɪl/

noun 6adj 5adv 1verb 1name 1

Collocations

(adj.)

VERBS

be, feel, look | become, be taken, fall, get

make sb

Eating too much candy makes children ill and causes problems with their teeth.

ADV

critically, dangerously, desperately, extremely, gravely, really, seriously, severely, terribly, very

The young child was critically ill and needed immediate medical attention at the hospital.

almost

My brother felt almost ill after eating too much cake at the party.

pretty, quite, rather, slightly | genuinely

violently

He fell violently ill during the meeting and had to go home immediately.

acutely

chronically

My grandmother has been chronically ill for the past five years, requiring regular medical care.

fatally, incurably, mortally, terminally

My grandmother was diagnosed as terminally ill, so the family decided to spend more time together.

mentally, physically

My grandmother was physically ill last winter, so we helped her with household chores.

Definitions

adj

Evil; wicked (of people).

St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it.

A man who is conscious of having an ill character, cannot justly be angry with those who neglect and slight him.

Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.

‘Go bring her. It is ill to keep a lady waiting.’

Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.

He suffered from ill treatment.

Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.

ill manners; ill will

[…]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.

Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.

mentally ill people

I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.

adv

Not well; imperfectly, badly

Such jealousy ill becomes her; she can ill afford another gaffe like that.

He would have conversed as usual; but his attempts were so ill seconded, that he was fain to take refuge in the letters that lay beside him.

noun

Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.

Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.

That makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of.

Harm or injury.

I wouldn't want you to do me ill.

Loue worketh no ill to his neighbour, therefore loue is the fulfilling of the Law.

Evil; moral wrongfulness.

Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, / Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill.

A physical ailment; an illness.

I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.

PCP, phencyclidine.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — an often persistent bodily disorder or disease

ailment
complaint

adjective — presaging ill fortune

inauspicious
ominous

adjective — affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental funct

sick

adverb — (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or impro

adverb — unfavorably or with disapproval

badly

Antonyms

well

Idioms & Phrases

be taken ill

To become ill.

take ill

To become ill, to fall ill.

ill health

A state of illness, or bad health.

I have to cancel my holidays due to continuing ill health.

it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good

An action or occurrence must be very bad indeed if it brings no benefit to anyone.

it's an ill wind that blows no good

Alternative form of it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

Example Bank

St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it.

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A man who is conscious of having an ill character, cannot justly be angry with those who neglect and slight him.

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‘Go bring her. It is ill to keep a lady waiting.’

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Such jealousy ill becomes her; she can ill afford another gaffe like that.

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He would have conversed as usual; but his attempts were so ill seconded, that he was fain to take refuge in the letters that lay beside him.

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Within, I found it, as I had expected, transcendently dismal. The slowly changing shadows waved on it from the heavy trees, were doleful in the last degree; the house was ill-placed, ill-built, ill-pl

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Usage Notes

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In some senses, ill is marked as obsolete, archaic, slang, dated, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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