Meaning of ill in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.

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

• Harm or injury.

  Example: I wouldn't want you to do me ill.

• Evil; moral wrongfulness.

• A physical ailment; an illness.

  Example: I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.

• PCP, phencyclidine.

adjective

• Evil; wicked (of people).

• Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.

• Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.

  Example: He suffered from ill treatment.

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

  Example: ill manners; ill will

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

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

• Having an urge to vomit.

  Example: Seeing those pictures made me ill.

• (hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.

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

  Example: That band was ill.

• Unwise; not a good idea.

adverb

• Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.