ill
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English ille (“evil; wicked”), from Old Norse íllr (adjective), ílla (adverb), ílt (noun), from Proto-Germanic *ilhilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁elḱ- (whence Latin ulcus (“sore”), Ancient Greek ἕλκος (hélkos, “wound, ulcer”), Sanskrit अर्शस् (árśas, “hemorrhoids”)).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots and Yola ill, Danish ilde (“bad”), Faroese, Icelandic illur (“bad, ill, wicked”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk ille (“bad”), Swedish illa (“badly; poorly”).
Inflected forms:
form: iller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more ill
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: illest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most ill
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: worse
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more ill
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: worst
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most ill
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: ills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Evil; wicked (of people).
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: ‘Go bring her. It is ill to keep a lady waiting.’
gloss: Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
pos: adj
examples: He suffered from ill treatment.
gloss: Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
pos: adj
examples: mentally ill people
I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.
“We desperately needed the nursing support because our ICUs are so inundated with critically ill Covid patients,” Brown said.
gloss: Nauseated; having an urge to vomit.
pos: adj
examples: Seeing those pictures made me ill.
gloss: Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: This is the illest beat I've ever heard.
Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?"
gloss: Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: That band was ill.
gloss: Unwise; not a good idea.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: Oh that when the devil and flesh entice the sinner to sport with and make a mock of sin, Prov. x. 23, he would but consider, it is ill jesting with edged tools, it is ill jesting with unquenchable burnings; […]
They arrested everybody—and it is ill to resist a drunken Tommy with a loaded rifle!
gloss: Bad-tempered.
pos: adj
tags: Appalachia
gloss: Not well; imperfectly, badly
pos: adv
examples: 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.
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-planned, and ill-fitted.
In both groups, however, we find copious and intricate speciation so that, often, species limits are narrow and ill defined.
His inflexibility and blindness ill become a leader, for a leader must temper justice with mercy.
Is it because this supposes an undifferentiated violence towards others and oneself that I could ill imagine in a woman?
gloss: Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
gloss: Harm or injury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I wouldn't want you to do me ill.
Loue worketh no ill to his neighbour, therefore loue is the fulfilling of the Law.
gloss: Evil; moral wrongfulness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, / Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill.
gloss: A physical ailment; an illness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.
gloss: PCP, phencyclidine.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
uncountable
Synonyms: bad
mal-
crank
crook
green about the gills
icky
ill
indisposed
infirm
like death warmed over
lousy
maladive
mawkish
off one's feed
on the Pat and Mick
out of sorts
Pat and Mick
punk
puny
queer
ropy
rough
sickish
sickly
sick as a dog
sick as a parrot
tumid
unhealthy
valetudinarian
valetudinary
Antonyms: fine
hale
healthy
in good health
well
good
wack
Derived words: be taken ill
bird of ill omen
do ill
fall ill
house of ill fame
ill-adapted
illbeing
ill-being
illbient
ill blood
illderly
ill-ease
ill effect
ill effects
ill fame
ill-famed
illfare
ill feeling
ill-fortune
ill health
ill humor
ill humour
illish
ill-looking
ill luck
ill name
illness
ill news spreads apace
ill off
ill-omened
ill-repute
ill-scented
illsome
ill-starred
illth
ill-thrift
ill-treatment
ill turn
ill-usage
ill-use
ill will
ill-willed
ill-willing
ill wind
ill-wish
illwisher
ill-wisher
in ill part
it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest
it's an ill wind
it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
it's an ill wind that blows no good
it's an ill wind that blows no one any good
lie ill in one's mouth
mentally ill
moorill
nonill
quarter-ill
take ill
terminally ill
wish someone ill
with ill grace
woman of ill fame
for good or ill
ill-doer
ill-doing
louping ill
thorter-ill
Translations:
lang: Acehnese
word: saket
lang: Afrikaans
word: siek
lang: Aghwan
word: 𐔱𐔰𐕅
roman: bal'
lang: Aklanon
word: masakit
lang: Albanian
word: i sëmurë
lang: Gheg Albanian
word: smu
lang: Amharic
word: ሕሙም
roman: ḥəmum
lang: Arabic
word: مَرِيض
roman: marīḍ
lang: Chadian Arabic
word: مرضان
roman: mardān
lang: Arabic
word: عيان
roman: ʕayyān
lang: Arabic
word: مريض
roman: mrīd
lang: Armenian
word: հիվանդ
roman: hivand
lang: Old Armenian
word: հիւանդ
roman: hiwand
lang: Old Armenian
word: խօթ
roman: xōtʻ
lang: Aromanian
word: lãndzit
lang: Aromanian
word: lãntsid
lang: Aromanian
word: lãndzidzãt
lang: Aromanian
word: niputut
lang: Aromanian
word: shuplicat
lang: Aromanian
word: hivrit
lang: Asturian
word: enfermu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: xəstə
lang: Azerbaijani
word: naxoş
lang: Bashkir
word: ауырыу
roman: awırıw
lang: Bashkir
word: сирле
roman: sirle
lang: Bashkir
word: сырхау
roman: sırxaw
lang: Basque
word: gaixo
lang: Belarusian
word: хво́ры
roman: xvóry
lang: Bengali
word: অসুস্থ
roman: ośustho
lang: Bislama
word: siki
lang: Bulgarian
word: бо́лен
roman: bólen
lang: Burmese
word: နာ
roman: na
lang: Burmese
word: နေထိုင်မကောင်း
roman: nehtuingma.kaung:
lang: Catalan
word: malalt
lang: Chickasaw
word: abika
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 病
roman: beng⁶
lang: Chinese
word: бин
roman: bin
lang: Chinese
word: бемар
roman: bi͡əmar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 病
roman: bìng
lang: Choctaw
word: abeka
lang: Chukchi
word: тъытԓьэн
roman: tʺytḷʹėn
lang: Czech
word: nemocný
lang: Danish
word: syg
lang: Dutch
word: ziek
lang: Dutch
word: zieke
lang: Dutch
word: krank
lang: Elfdalian
word: klien
lang: Elfdalian
word: siuok
lang: Erzya
word: ормав
roman: ormav
lang: Esperanto
word: malsana
lang: Estonian
word: haige
lang: Faroese
word: sjúkur
lang: Finnish
word: sairas
lang: French
word: malade
lang: West-Frisian
word: siik
lang: Galician
word: enfermo
lang: Galician
word: doente
lang: Georgian
word: ავადმყოფი
roman: avadmq̇opi
lang: Georgian
word: სნეული
roman: sneuli
lang: German
word: krank
lang: German
word: siech
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌿𐌽𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃
roman: unhails
lang: Greek
word: άρρωστος
roman: árrostos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἄρρωστος
roman: árrhōstos
lang: Greenlandic
word: napparsimasoq
lang: Haitian Creole
word: malad
lang: Hawaiian
word: maʻi
lang: Hebrew
word: חוֹלֶה
roman: kholé
lang: Hindi
word: अस्वस्थ
roman: asvasth
lang: Hindi
word: बीमार
roman: bīmār
lang: Hindi
word: रोगी
roman: rogī
lang: White Hmong
word: mob
lang: Hungarian
word: beteg
lang: Icelandic
word: veikur
lang: Icelandic
word: lasinn
lang: Icelandic
word: sjúkur
lang: Ido
word: malada
lang: Indonesian
word: sakit
lang: Ingrian
word: kippiä
lang: Interlingua
word: malade
lang: Iranun
word: masakit
lang: Irish
word: tinn
lang: Italian
word: malato
lang: Japanese
word: 病気
roman: byōki
lang: Javanese
word: lara
lang: Old Javanese
word: lara
lang: Kazakh
word: ауру
roman: auru
lang: Kazakh
word: науқас
roman: nauqas
lang: Kazakh
word: сырқат
roman: syrqat
lang: Kazakh
word: дімкәс
roman: dımkäs
lang: Khmer
word: ឈឺ
roman: chɨɨ
lang: Khmer
word: ថ្កាត់
roman: thkat
lang: Korean
word: 병들다
roman: byeongdeulda
lang: Korean
word: 앓다
roman: alta
lang: Central Kurdish
word: نەخۆش
roman: nexoş
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: nexweş
lang: Kyrgyz
word: оору
roman: ooru
lang: Kyrgyz
word: оорулуу
roman: ooruluu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: ноокас
roman: nookas
lang: Kyrgyz
word: сыркоолуу
roman: sırkooluu
lang: Ladino
word: hazino
lang: Ladino
word: hazinu (Monastir)
lang: Ladino
word: hazina
lang: Ladino
word: malo (Izmir)
lang: Lao
word: ເຈັບ
roman: chep
lang: Lao
word: ຕົກອັບ
roman: tok ʼap
lang: Lao
word: ບໍ່ສະບາຍ
roman: bǭ sa bāi
lang: Latgalian
word: navasals
lang: Latin
word: īnfirmus
lang: Latin
word: aeger
lang: Latin
word: aegrōtus
lang: Latvian
word: slims
lang: Latvian
word: sasirdzis
lang: Laz
word: ზაბუნი
roman: zabuni
lang: Lithuanian
word: sergantis
lang: Livonian
word: rujā
lang: Lushootseed
word: ʔəsʔi
lang: Luxembourgish
word: krank
lang: Macedonian
word: болен
roman: bolen
lang: Malay
word: sakit
lang: Malay
word: gering
lang: Maltese
word: marid
lang: Mansaka
word: masakit
lang: Māori
word: mahaki
lang: Māori
word: maki
lang: Māori
word: wheori
lang: Māori
word: tarutaruhea
lang: Māori
word: manauhea
lang: Māori
word: māuiui
lang: Maranao
word: kasakit
lang: Mingrelian
word: ლეხიანი
roman: lexiani
lang: Moksha
word: сяряди
roman: särädi
lang: Mongolian
word: өвчтэй
roman: övčtej
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠥᠪᠡᠳᠴᠢᠲᠡᠢ
roman: öbedčitei
lang: Norman
word: malade
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: syk
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sjuk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: sjuk
lang: Nǀuu
word: ʘʻuiʻiki
lang: Occitan
word: malaut
lang: Odia
word: ବେମାରିଆ
roman: bemāriā
lang: Ojibwe
word: aakozi
lang: Church Slavic
word: больнъ
roman: bolĭnŭ
lang: Old English
word: seoc
lang: Old English
word: ādliġ
lang: Old Saxon
word: siok
lang: Pashto
word: بيمار
roman: bimār
lang: Pashto
word: مريض
roman: mariz
lang: Persian
word: بیمار
roman: bimâr
lang: Persian
word: مریض
roman: mariz
lang: Pijin
word: siki
lang: Plautdietsch
word: krank
lang: Polish
word: chory
lang: Portuguese
word: doente
lang: Romagnol
word: mêl
lang: Romani
word: nasvalo
lang: Romanian
word: bolnav
lang: Romanian
word: abătut
lang: Romansh
word: malsaun
lang: Russian
word: больно́й
roman: bolʹnój
lang: Russian
word: хво́рый
roman: xvóryj
lang: Northern Sami
word: buohcci
lang: Northern Sami
word: buozas
lang: Samoan
word: maʻi
lang: Sango
word: kobêla
lang: Sanskrit
word: अस्वस्थ
roman: asvastha
lang: Sanskrit
word: रुग्ण
roman: rugṇa
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tinn
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бо̏лестан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bȍlestan
lang: Sindhi
word: بیمار
lang: Sinhalese
word: අසනීප
roman: asanīpa
lang: Slovak
word: chorý
lang: Slovak
word: nemocný
lang: Slovene
word: bolan
lang: Somali
word: bukaan
lang: Somali
word: xanuun
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: chóry
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: chory
lang: Spanish
word: enfermo
lang: Spanish
word: mareado
lang: Swahili
word: -gonjwa
lang: Swedish
word: sjuk
lang: Tagalog
word: may sakit
lang: Tahitian
word: maʻi
lang: Tajik
word: бемор
roman: bemor
lang: Tajik
word: мариз
roman: mariz
lang: Tajik
word: касал
roman: kasal
lang: Talysh
word: noxəş
lang: Talysh
word: مریض
roman: mariz
lang: Tat
word: naxuş
lang: Tat
word: bimar
lang: Tatar
word: авыру
roman: awıru
lang: Tetum
word: moras
lang: Thai
word: ป่วย
roman: bpùai
lang: Thai
word: ไม่สบาย
roman: mâi-sà-baai
lang: Tibetan
word: ན
roman: na
lang: Tibetan
word: ནན་ཏེ
roman: nan te
lang: Tigrinya
word: ሕሙም
roman: ḥəmum
lang: Tocharian B
word: tekiññe
lang: Tok Pisin
word: sik
lang: Tongan
word: mahaki
lang: Tongan
word: puke
lang: Turkish
word: hasta
lang: Turkish
word: sayrı
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: خسته
lang: Turkmen
word: syrkaw
lang: Turkmen
word: hassa
lang: Turkmen
word: kesel
lang: Turkmen
word: näsag
lang: Ukrainian
word: хво́рий
roman: xvóryj
lang: Unami
word: palsi
lang: Urdu
word: بیمار
roman: bīmār
lang: Urdu
word: مریض
roman: marīz
lang: Urdu
word: علیل
roman: alīl
lang: Uyghur
word: كېسەل
roman: kësel
lang: Uzbek
word: kasal
lang: Uzbek
word: xasta
lang: Uzbek
word: bemor
lang: Uzbek
word: nosogʻ
lang: Vietnamese
word: bệnh
lang: Vietnamese
word: ốm
lang: Volapük
word: malädik
lang: Welsh
word: sâl
lang: Yiddish
word: קראַנק
roman: krank
lang: Yiddish
word: קרענקלעך
roman: krenklekh
lang: Yiddish
word: געלעגן צו בעט
roman: gelegn tsu bet
lang: Zhuang
word: bingh
lang: Bulgarian
word: беда
roman: beda
lang: Bulgarian
word: трудност
roman: trudnost
lang: Bulgarian
word: мъчнотия
roman: mǎčnotija
lang: German
word: Übel
lang: Macedonian
word: зло
roman: zlo
lang: Polish
word: problem