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Ill   /ɪl/   Listen
Ill

adjective
(compar. iller; superl. illest)
1.
Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function.  Synonym: sick.
2.
Resulting in suffering or adversity.  "It's an ill wind that blows no good"
3.
Distressing.  "Of ill repute"
4.
Indicating hostility or enmity.  "Ill feelings" , "Ill will"
5.
Presaging ill fortune.  Synonyms: inauspicious, ominous.  "Ill predictions" , "My words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven" , "A dead and ominous silence prevailed" , "A by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
adverb
1.
('ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well.  Synonyms: badly, poorly.  "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"
2.
Unfavorably or with disapproval.  Synonym: badly.  "Thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
3.
With difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly.
noun
1.
An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining.  Synonyms: ailment, complaint.



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"Ill" Quotes from Famous Books



... needlessly rode to some of its most prominent preachers, such as Mr and Mrs Webb, who at least merit the respect due to those who have given lives of work to supporting a cause which they believe to be sound and in the best interests of mankind. But in spite of their chronic and sometimes ill-mannered facetiousness at the expense of State Socialism and its advocates, the Guild Socialists, as we shall see, have to rely on State control for very important wheels in their machinery and leave gaps in it which, as far as disinterested observers can ...
— War-Time Financial Problems • Hartley Withers

... aside. Women, in judgment weak, in feeling strong, By every gust of passion borne along. To a fond spouse a wife no mercy shows; Though warmed with equal fires, she mocks his woes, And triumphs in his spoils; her wayward will Defeats his bliss and turns his good to ill. Women support the bar; they love the law, And raise litigious questions for a straw; Nay, more, they fence! who has not marked their oil, Their purple rigs, for this preposterous toil! A woman stops at nothing, when she wears Rich ...
— The Old Roman World • John Lord

... the matters to be decided on would come specially within their cognisance, and where their judgment would, therefore, be more reliable than that of men. It is this, that in the noise and turmoil of party politics, or in the narrow, but rancorous arena of local factions, it must needs fare ill with what may be called the passive virtues of humility, patience, meekness, forbearance, and self-repression. These are looked on by the Church as the special prerogative and endowment of the female soul ... But these ...
— A Short History of Women's Rights • Eugene A. Hecker

... to Assunta, who of course knew me not, that Poggi was taken fatally ill and might hardly hope to last an hour. It was enough. I returned to the boat and in three minutes Albert joined me and offered me untold gold to row as I had never rowed before. A hundred and fifty yards from shore I directed him to ...
— The Red Redmaynes • Eden Phillpotts

... such darkness that they have seemed utterly incomprehensible to those who have led the philosophic life—and those too not a few in number, nor of ill-repute. Nay, even to the Stoics the course of affairs seems an enigma. Indeed, every conclusion reached seems tentative; for where is the man to be found who does not change his conclusions? Think too of the things men most desire,—riches, reputation, and the like,—and ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various


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