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ill

noun

1 ill

An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining.

synonyms: ailment, complaint.

Roget 619: evil, ill, harm, hurt.   , mischief, nuisance; machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to.    blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, ... show more

Dutch: klacht, grieven, beklag, affectie, aandoening, indispositie, kwaal
Polish: dolegliwość

adjective

1 ill

Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function:
— Ill from the monotony of his suffering.

synonym: sick.

Roget 655: diseased; ailing etc. v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; ... show more

Polish: chory

2 ill

Resulting in suffering or adversity.

3 ill

Distressing.

4 ill

Indicating hostility or enmity.

5 ill

Presaging ill fortune:
— Ill omens.
— Ill predictions.

synonyms: inauspicious, ominous.

Roget 649: hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful; injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, ... show more

adverb

1 ill

`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.
— Ill-fitting clothes.
— An ill-conceived plan.

synonyms: badly, poorly.

Roget 649: badly etc. adj.; wrong, ill; to one's cost; where the shoe pinches.   

Roget 619: amis [Fr.], wrong, ill, to one's cost

2 ill

Unfavorably or with disapproval:
— Tried not to speak ill of the dead.

synonym: badly.

3 ill

With difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly.


Moby thesaurus: abomination, affection, ailing, ailment, amiss, apocalyptic, atrocity, bad, badly, baleful, bane, baneful, befoulment, below par, black, blight, bodeful, boding, complaint, condition ... show more.

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