Meaning

10 senses
  1. Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.

    He suffered from ill treatment.

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

    ill manners; ill will

  3. Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.

    mentally ill people

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

  4. Nauseated; having an urge to vomit.

    Seeing those pictures made me ill.

    übel, schlecht

  5. (slang)Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.

    This is the illest beat I've ever heard.

  6. (slang)Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.

    That band was ill.

  7. (dated)Unwise; not a good idea.

  8. (Appalachia)Bad-tempered.

  9. (obsolete)Evil; wicked (of people).

  10. (archaic)Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.

More definitions
  • presaging ill fortune
  • distressing
  • resulting in suffering or adversity
  • indicating hostility or enmity

Examples

1215 sentences
  1. She always speaks ill of others.

    Вона завжди говорить погане про інших.

    ruОна всегда говорит плохо о других.

    deSie spricht immer schlecht über andere.

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  2. He looks as if he had been ill.

    Він, здається, хворів.

    deEr sieht so als, als wäre er krank gewesen.

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  3. She could not come because she was ill.

    Вона не змогла прийти, бо хвора.

    ruОна не смогла прийти, потому что была больна.

    deSie konnte wegen ihrer Krankheit nicht kommen.

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  4. He seemed to have been ill.

    Він виглядав хворим.

    deEr schien krank gewesen zu sein.

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  5. I didn't know she was ill.

    Я не знав, що вона хвора.

    ruЯ не знал, что она больна.

    deIch wusste nicht, dass sie krank war.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
in poor health, suffering from a disease:
Русский
By meaning 1
in poor health, suffering from a disease:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
in poor health, suffering from a disease:
having an urge to vomit:

Origin

From Middle English ille (“evil; wicked”), from Old Norse íllr (adjective), ílla (adverb),

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”)).

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Forms

iller/more ill, illest/most ill
Comparativeiller / more ill Lesson
Superlativeillest / most ill Lesson

regular

Synonyms

43 synonyms
bad:badA1mal-
in hip-hop slang: sublime:dope
Close in meaning

Antonyms

7 antonyms
suffering from a disease:fineA1halehealthyA1in good healthwellA1
bad:goodA1

Word family

47 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • ill at ease
  • speak ill of
  • ill of others
  • is mentally ill
  • mentally ill
  • is seriously ill
  • seriously ill
  • speak ill
  • felt ill at
  • terminally ill
  • had been ill
  • felt ill

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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