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

(` ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; " he was ill prepared"; " it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; " the car runs badly"; " he performed badly on the exam"; " the team played poorly"; " ill- fitting clothes"; " an ill- conceived plan"

unfavorably or with disapproval; " tried not to speak ill of the dead"; " thought badly of him for his lack of concern"

not in good physical or mental health; " ill from the monotony of his suffering"

with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly; " we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"

distressing; " ill manners"; " of ill repute"

resulting in suffering or adversity; " ill effects"; " it's an ill wind that blows no good"

indicating hostility or enmity; " you certainly did me an ill turn"; " ill feelings"; " ill will"

presaging ill- fortune; " ill omens"; " ill predictions"; " my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P. B. Shelley; " a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; " a by- election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"

Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable.

Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper.

Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever.

Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant.

Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity.

Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil.

In a ill manner; badly; weakly.

Worse.

Worst.

Bad or evil; contrary to good; causing or attended by evil or suffering; in a bad or disordered state physically or morally; sick; diseased; unfriendly; not proper; unskilful; vicious.

Misfortune; disease; anything that prevents what is good; something morally bad; mischief.

Not well; not easily.

Sick, unwell.

( comp. WORSE: superl. WORST), Evil, bad: contrary to good: wicked: producing evil: unfortunate: unfavorable: sick diseased: improper: incorrect: cross, as temper.

Not well: not rightly: with difficulty.

Evil: wickedness: misfortune.

When compounded with other words, expresses badness of quality or condition.

Bad; sick.

Badly; wrongly.

Evil; misfortune; wickedness.

Disordered physically; sick.

Baneful; harmful; inferior.

Anything bad; injury; harm; misfortune.

Not well; badly; poorly.

With difficulty; hardly.

Bad or evil; contrary to good; producing evil; cross; diseased; sick or indisposed; suggestive of evil; unfavourable; rude; unpolished; not proper.

Wickedness; evil; misfortune.

Bad; evil; contrary to good; unfortunate; unfavourable; sick; unwell; cross; surly.

As the first element of a compound, signifying " a negation" or " some bad quality connected with it"; not well; badly.

" Is he ill again? – What Dreams May Come by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

You'll not forget to find out in some way if the Baron is ill, will you? – A Tar-Heel Baron by Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton

Is the child ill? – K by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mrs. Lorimer has been taken ill. – The Bars of Iron by Ethel May Dell

Mother, I cried, you are ill! – Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips Oppenheim

The man had been ill used. – Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

" 'This young friend was very ill; you would not have had me leave him? – Scenes in Switzerland by American Tract Society

Mrs. Dearmer has been taken ill. – My Diary in Serbia: April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915 by Monica M. Stanley

I tell you, since the time I saw him lying next to Your Majesty, I have never felt more ill will for any man in the world than I feel for him. – The White Knight: Tirant lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell and Marti Johan d'Galba

He is very ill indeed. – The Golden Web by Anthony Partridge

And for the rest, you must read me ill. – Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard

I'm afraid that I am ill, he said; call Gongi. – Cumner & South Sea Folk, Complete by Gilbert Parker

We have been with you all night- since you were taken ill, that is. – Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald

Many speak ill of her. – An Orkney Maid by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Did Miss Warren see me while I was ill? – Cardigan by Robert W. Chambers

Hubbard had been ill, and I had been ill. – The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace

Poor fellow, he looks very ill indeed to- night. – Philistia by Grant Allen

She say she is ill! – Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

Who could take it ill of you? – Plays A Protégée of the Mistress; Poverty Is No Crime; Sin and Sorrow Are Common to All; It's a Family Affair--We'll Settle It Ourselves by Alexander Ostrovsky

No, no; I am not ill; it is over now. – Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood