Definition of ills Ills
/ɪˈlz/ - [ilz] -
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Wiktionary 
- ills (Noun)
Plural of ill.
Part of speech
🔤- ills, noun, plural of ill.
WordNet
Adjectiveill, iller, illest |
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| ill - affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" | ||
| sick | ||
| well wise or advantageous and hence advisable; "it would be well to start early" | ||
| unhealthy not conducive to good health; "an unhealthy diet of fast foods"; "an unhealthy climate" | ||
| unfit not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service" | ||
| afflicted, stricken mentally or physically unfit | ||
| aguish affected by ague | ||
| ailing, poorly, under the weather, unwell, indisposed, peaked, sickly, seedy somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" | ||
| air sick, airsick, carsick, seasick experiencing motion sickness | ||
| autistic characteristic of or affected with autism; "autistic behavior"; "autistic children" | ||
| bedfast, bedrid, bedridden, sick-abed confined to bed (by illness) | ||
| livery, liverish, bilious suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | ||
| bronchitic suffering from or prone to bronchitis | ||
| consumptive tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires" | ||
| convalescent, recovering returning to health after illness or debility; "convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed" | ||
| hallucinating, delirious marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" | ||
| diabetic suffering from diabetes | ||
| vertiginous, woozy, dizzy, giddy having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff" | ||
| dyspeptic suffering from dyspepsia | ||
| swooning, light-headed, lightheaded, faint, light lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady" | ||
| feverous, feverish marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace" | ||
| funny experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest" | ||
| gouty suffering from gout | ||
| green of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint" | ||
| laid low, stricken put out of action (by illness) | ||
| laid up ill and usually confined; "laid up with a bad cold" | ||
| milk-sick affected with or related to milk sickness | ||
| nauseated, sickish, nauseous, queasy, sick feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | ||
| palsied affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor; "palsied hands" | ||
| paralyzed, paralytic affected with paralysis | ||
| paraplegic suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord | ||
| rachitic, rickety inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky" | ||
| scrofulous having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula; "our canoe...lay with her scrofulous sides on the shore"- Farley Mowat | ||
| sneezy inclined to sneeze | ||
| spastic suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child" | ||
| tuberculous, tubercular constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus; "a tubercular child"; "tuberculous patients"; "tubercular meningitis" | ||
| unhealed not healed; "an unhealed wound" | ||
| ill - 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" | ||
| inauspicious, ominous | ||
| unpropitious not propitious | ||
| ill - distressing; "ill manners"; "of ill repute" | ||
| ill - resulting in suffering or adversity; "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good" | ||
| ill - indicating hostility or enmity; "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will" | ||
Adverb |
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| 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"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived plan" | ||
| badly, poorly | ||
| combining form a bound form used only in compounds; "`hemato-' is a combining form in words like `hematology'" | ||
| hapless, misfortunate, piteous, pitiable, pathetic, pitiful, wretched, miserable, poor deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" | ||
| ill - unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern" | ||
| badly | ||
| unfavorable, unfavourable (of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose; "unfavorable winds" | ||
| ill - with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly; "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now" | ||
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Wiktionary
- ill (Noun)
Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity. - ill (Noun)
Harm or injury. - ill (Noun)
Evil; moral wrongfulness. - ill (Noun)
A physical ailment; an illness. - ill (Noun)
Unfavorable remarks or opinions. - ill (Noun)
PCP, phencyclidine. - ill (Adverb)
Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly. - ill (Adjective)
Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel. - ill (Adjective)
Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick. - ill (Adjective)
Having an urge to vomit. - ill (Adjective)
Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill, comparative iller, superlative illest. - ill (Adjective)
Extremely bad bad enough to make one ill. Generally used indirectly with to be.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- ill (a.)
Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable. - ill (a.)
Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper. - ill (a.)
Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever. - ill (a.)
Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant. - ill (n.)
Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity. - ill (n.)
Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil. - ill (adv.)
In a ill manner; badly; weakly.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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ill
Whose health is altered.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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ill
il, adj. (comp. worse; superl. worst) evil, bad: contrary to good: wicked: producing evil: unfortunate: unfavourable: sick: diseased: improper: incorrect: cross, as temper.—adv. not well: not rightly: with difficulty—(rare) Ill′y.—n. evil: wickedness: misfortune.—Ill, when compounded with other words, expresses badness of quality or condition, as 'ill-advised,' 'ill-affected,' 'ill-disposed,' &c.—adj. Ill′-beseem′ing (Shak.), unbecoming.—n. Ill′-blood, ill-feeling: resentment.—adjs. Ill′-bod′ing, inauspicious; Ill′-bred, badly bred or educated: uncivil.—n. Ill′-breed′ing.—adjs. Ill′-condit′ioned, in bad condition: churlish; Ill′-fat′ed, bringing ill-fortune; Ill′-faurd (Scot.), Ill′-fā′voured, ill-looking: deformed: ugly.—n. Ill′-fā′vouredness, state of being ill-favoured: deformity.—adjs. Ill′-got, -ten, procured by bad means; Ill′-haired (Scot.) cross-grained; Ill′-judged, not well judged; Ill′-look′ing, having a bad look; Ill′-manned′, insufficiently provided with men; Ill′-nā′tured, of an ill nature or temper: cross: peevish.—adv. Ill′-nā′turedly.—ns. Ill′-nā′turedness, the quality of being ill-natured; Ill′ness, sickness: disease.—adjs. Ill′-off, in bad circumstances; Ill′-ō′mened, having bad omens: unfortunate; Ill′-starred, born under the influence of an unlucky star: unlucky; Ill′-tem′pered, having a bad temper: morose: fretful: (Shak.) disordered; Ill′-timed, said or done at an unsuitable time.—v.t. Ill′-treat, to treat ill: to abuse.—n. Ill′-turn, an act of unkindness or enmity.—adj. Ill′-used, badly used or treated.—ns. Ill′-will, unkind feeling: enmity; Ill′-wish′er, one who wishes harm to another.—adj. Ill′-wrest′ing, misinterpreting to disadvantage.—Go ill with, to result in danger or misfortune; Take it ill, to be offended. [From Ice. illr, a contraction of the word which appears in A.S. yfel, evil.]
Part of speech
🔤- ill, noun, singular of ills.
- ill, adjective.
