Ill
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English
| Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg. | ||||||
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| eight | modern | medium | #841: ill | eat | et | scene |
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Adjective
ill (comparative worse, superlative worst)
- Suffering from a disease.
- I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.
- Having an urge to vomit.
- Seeing those pictures made me ill.
- Bad, often connoting abuse or neglect.
- He suffered from ill treatment.
- (hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
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- That band was ill.
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Synonyms
- (suffering from a disease): diseased, poorly (UK), sick, under the weather (informal), unwell
- (having an urge to vomit): disgusted, nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickened
- (bad): bad, mal-
- (in hip-hop slang: sublime): wack
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Antonyms
- (suffering from a disease): fine, hale, healthy, in good health, well
- (having an urge to vomit):
- (bad): good
- (in hip-hop slang: sublime): dope
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Derived terms
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Translations
suffering from a disease
having an urge to vomit
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bad
in hip-hop slang: sublime
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- Welsh: claf (1, 2), drwg (3, 4), gwael (3, 4)
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Adverb
ill
- Badly; very incompletely. Often hyphenated to form an adjectival phrase.
- That move was ill-planned and ill-executed.
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Antonyms
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badly
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Noun
Ill (plural Ills)
- A problem.
- Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.
- Damage, or something damaging.
- I wouldn't want you to say or think ill of me, or try to do me ill.
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Derived terms
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Translations
a problem
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something damaging