• an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
• presaging Ill-fortune; "Ill omens"; "Ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
• distressing; "Ill manners"; "of Ill repute"
• resulting in suffering or adversity; "Ill effects"; "it''s an Ill wind that blows no good"
• indicating hostility or enmity; "you certainly did me an Ill turn"; "Ill feelings"; "Ill wIll"
• not in good physical or mental health; "Ill from the monotony of his suffering"
• (`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"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "Ill
• with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly; "we can Ill afford to buy a new car just now"
• unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak Ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"

'Ill' in other languages