Definitions For Ill
noun
- An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
- Bad or unlucky things
- A sickness or disease
- Troubles or problems
adjective
- Presaging ill fortune
- Distressing
- Resulting in suffering or adversity
- Indicating hostility or enmity
adjective
- Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
adverb
- (ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
- With difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly
- Unfavorably or with disapproval
verb
- In a bad or imperfect way
- In an unfavorable or unkind way
Examples of Ill in a Sentence
- That dog can eat almost anything with no ill effects.
- They had been subjected to months of ill treatment.
- He is being ill served by his advisers.
- Please don't think ill of me.
- He was a good man who never spoke ill of anyone.
- Chicken pox and the other ills that were once a fixture of childhood
- Idealistic people who try to cure all of our society's ills
noun
- An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
- Bad or unlucky things
- A sickness or disease
- Troubles or problems
adjective
- Presaging ill fortune
- Distressing
- Resulting in suffering or adversity
- Indicating hostility or enmity
adjective
- Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
adverb
- (ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
- With difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly
- Unfavorably or with disapproval
verb
- In a bad or imperfect way
- In an unfavorable or unkind way
- That dog can eat almost anything with no ill effects.
- They had been subjected to months of ill treatment.
- He is being ill served by his advisers.
- Please don't think ill of me.
- He was a good man who never spoke ill of anyone.
- Chicken pox and the other ills that were once a fixture of childhood
- Idealistic people who try to cure all of our society's ills