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==English==

{{rank|eight|modern|medium|841|ill|eat|et|scene}}

===Etymology===
From {{etyl|non|en}} {{term|illr||lang=non|bad}} (whence Danish {{term|ild||lang=da|evil}}).
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#: ''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'''.''


====Usage notes====
*The comparative forms [[iller]] and [[illest]] are used in American English, but less than one fourth as frequently as the "more" and "most" forms.

====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''): [[dope]]
* See also [[Wikisaurus:diseased]]

====Antonyms====
(contracted; show full)[[fi:ill]]
[[sv:ill]]
[[ta:ill]]
[[te:ill]]
[[th:ill]]
[[tr:ill]]
[[vi:ill]]
[[zh:ill]]