1. Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
   "ill from the monotony of his suffering";
   - sick
    
2. Resulting in suffering or adversity
   "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good"
    
3. Distressing
   "ill manners"; "of ill repute"
    
4. Indicating hostility or enmity
   "ill will"; "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"
    
5. Presaging ill fortune
   "ill omens"; "ill predictions";
   - inauspicious, ominous

1. In a poor 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";
   - badly, poorly
    
2. Unfavourably or with disapproval
   "tried not to speak ill of the dead";
   - badly
    
3. With difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly
   "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"

1. An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
   "She visited the doctor for a minor ill";
   - ailment, complaint
    
2. The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
   "attempts to explain the origin of ill in the world";
   - evil, evilness
    
3. A source of difficulty
   "Poverty is one of society's greatest ills";
   - trouble, problem, prob [informal]

1. I shall; I will
   "I'll be there soon"

1. A midwestern state in north-central United States
   - Illinois, Prairie State, Land of Lincoln, IL

Derived forms: illest, iller, ills

See also: afflicted, aguish, ailing, autistic, bad, bedfast [archaic], bedrid [non-standard], bedridden, bilious, bronchitic, consumptive, convalescent, crook [Austral, NZ, informal], cruddy [informal], delirious, diabetic, dizzy, dyspeptic, evil, faint, feverish, feverous, funny, giddy, gouty, green, grotty [Brit, informal], harmful, hostile, hungover, indisposed, laid low, laid up, light, lightheaded, light-headed, liverish, livery, milk-sick, nauseated, nauseous, off-colour [Brit, informal], out of sorts [informal], palsied, paralysed [Brit, Cdn], paralytic, paralyzed [N. Amer], paraplegic, peaked, poorly, queasy, rachitic, recovering, rickety, scrofulous, seasick, seedy [archaic], sick, sick-abed, sickish, sickly, sneezy, spastic, stricken, swooning, tubercular, tuberculous, under the weather [informal], unfit, unhealed, unhealthy, unpropitious, unwell, upset, vertiginous, woozy [informal]

Type of: American state, bad, badness, difficultness, difficulty, disorder, immorality, upset

Antonym: well

Part of: America, 'Merica, middle west, Midwest, midwestern United States, the States, U.S., U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA

Encyclopedia: Ill, France