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1. adj. (obsolete) Evil; wicked (of people). | |
2. adj. (archaic) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy. | |
3. adj. Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel. | |
He suffered from ill treatment. | |
4. adj. Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard. | |
ill manners; ill will | |
5. adj. Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick. | |
I've been ill with the flu for the past few days. | |
6. adj. Having an urge to vomit. | |
Seeing those pictures made me ill. | |
7. adj. (hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. | |
8. adj. (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be. | |
That band was ill. | |
9. adv. Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly. | |
10. n. (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity. | |
Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear. | |
11. n. Harm or injury. | |
I wouldn't want you to do me ill. | |
12. n. Evil; moral wrongfulness. | |
13. n. A physical ailment; an illness. | |
I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills. | |
14. n. (US, slang) PCP, phencyclidine. | |