Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.

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

  2. (countable, uncountable)Harm or injury.

    I wouldn't want you to do me ill.

  3. (countable, uncountable)Evil; moral wrongfulness.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A physical ailment; an illness.

    I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.

  5. (US, slang, uncountable)PCP, phencyclidine.

More definitions
  • an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

Examples

1215 sentences
  1. She always speaks ill of others.

    Вона завжди говорить погане про інших. — aandrusiak

    ruОна всегда говорит плохо о других. — Lenin_1917

    deSie spricht immer schlecht über andere. — Esperantostern

  2. He looks as if he had been ill.

    Він, здається, хворів. — triantafillou

    deEr sieht so als, als wäre er krank gewesen. — MUIRIEL

  3. She could not come because she was ill.

    Вона не змогла прийти, бо хвора. — aandrusiak

    ruОна не смогла прийти, потому что была больна. — soniamiku

    deSie konnte wegen ihrer Krankheit nicht kommen. — xtofu80

  4. He seemed to have been ill.

    Він виглядав хворим. — anastasishko

    deEr schien krank gewesen zu sein. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. I didn't know she was ill.

    Я не знав, що вона хвора. — shanghainese

    ruЯ не знал, что она больна. — shanghainese

    deIch wusste nicht, dass sie krank war. — MUIRIEL

Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a problem:

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

plural: ills
Singularill
Pluralills

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining:ailmentcomplaint

Word family

4 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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