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{{see|I'll}}
==English==

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===Pronunciation===
*{{IPA|/ɪl/}}
*{{audio|en-us-ill.ogg|Audio (US)}}
*Rhymes: [[Rhymes:English:-ɪl|-ɪl]]

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}<!--Note: "iller" and "illest" are nonstandard—see print dictionaries; "worse" and "worst" are incorrect—these are forms of "bad", not "ill".-->

# Suffering from a [[disease]].
#: ''I've been ill'''ill''' with the flu for the past few days.''
# Having an urge to [[vomit]].
#: ''Seeing those pictures made me ill'''ill'''.''
# [[Bad]], often connoting [[abuse]] or [[neglect]].
#: ''He suffered from ill'''ill''' treatment.''
# (''{{context|hip-hop slang'')}} [[sublime|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.
# {{slang}} Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill).  Generally used indirectly with ''to be''.
#: ''That band was ill'''ill'''.''

====Synonyms====
*(''suffering from a disease''): [[diseased]], [[poorly]] (''UK''), [[sick]], [[under the weather]] (''informal''), [[unwell]]
*(''having an urge to vomit''): [[disgusted]], [[nauseate]]d, [[nauseous]], [[sick]], [[sicken]]ed
*(''bad''): [[bad]], [[mal-]]
*(''in hip-hop slang: sublime''): [[wack]]

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*{{ttbc|Breton}}: [[klañv]] (1)
*{{ttbc|Irish}}: [[tinn]] (1)
*{{ttbc|Welsh}}: [[claf]] (1, 2), [[drwg]] (3, 4), [[gwael]] (3, 4)

===Adverb===

'''ill'''{{en-adv}}

# Badly; very incompletely.  Often hyphenated to form an adjectival phrase.
#:''That move was ill'''ill'''-planned and ill'''ill'''-executed.''

====Antonyms====
*[[well]]

====Derived terms====
*[[bode ill]]
*[[ill afford]]
*[[ill-formed]]
*[[ill-gotten]]

====Translations====
{{trans-top|badly}}
*French: [[mal]]
{{trans-mid}}
*Polish: [[źle]]
{{trans-bottom}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{context|often [[pluralize]]d}} [[Trouble]]; [[distress]]; [[misfortune]]; [[adversity]].
#: ''Music won't solve all the world's '''ills''', but it can make them easier to bear.''
# [[Harm]] or [[injury]].
#: ''I wouldn't want you to do me '''ill'''.''
# [[Evil]]; [[moral]] [[wrongfulness]].
#: ''Sociopaths do not seem to grasp the difference between good and '''ill'''.''
# A physical [[ailment]]; an [[illness]].
#: ''I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other '''ills'''.''
# [[unfavorable|Unfavorable]] [[remarks]] or [[opinions]].
#: ''Do not speak '''ill''' of the dead.''

====Derived terms====
*[[for good or ill]]

====Translations====

{{trans-top|a problem}}
*German: [[Übel]] {{n}}
{{trans-mid}}
*Polish: [[problem]] {{m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|something damaging}}
{{trans-mid}}
*Polish: [[krzywda]] {{f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===References===
*''Oxford English Dictionary'', 2nd ed., 1989.
*''Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary'', 1987-1996.

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