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Ill
/ɪl/
(often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
📖 Definitions of "Ill"
noun
- 1
(often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
"Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear."
- 2
Harm or injury.
"I wouldn't want you to do me ill."
- 3
Evil; moral wrongfulness.
- 4
A physical ailment; an illness.
"I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills."
adjective
- 1
Evil; wicked (of people).
- 2
Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
- 3
Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
"He suffered from ill treatment."
- 4
Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
"ill manners; ill will"
adverb
- 1
Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.
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