ILL

Ill

The Ill is a river in Alsace, in north-eastern France. It is a "left-side", or western tributary of the Rhine.

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ill

Noun

  1. Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
  2. Harm or injury.
  3. Evil; moral wrongfulness.
  4. A physical ailment; an illness.
  5. Unfavorable remarks or opinions.
  6. PCP, phencyclidine.

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. Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
    I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.
  5. Having an urge to vomit.
    Seeing those pictures made me ill.
  6. Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill, comparative iller, superlative illest.]
    Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?" — Biggie Smalls, The What, 1994.
  7. Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
    That band was ill.

Adverb

  1. Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.


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