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==English==

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===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|/ɪl/}}
* {{audio|en-us-ill.ogg|Audio (US)}}
* {{rhymes|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''' with the flu for the past few days.''
# Having an urge to [[vomit]].
#: ''Seeing those pictures made me '''ill'''.''
# [[bad|Bad]], often connoting [[abuse]] or [[neglect]].
#: ''He suffered from '''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'''.''

====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]]

====Antonyms====
* (''suffering from a disease''): [[fine]], [[hale]], [[healthy]], in good health, [[well]]
* (''having an urge to vomit''):
* (''bad''): [[good]]
* (''in hip-hop slang: sublime''): [[wack]]

====Derived terms====
* [[be ill]]
* [[fall ill]]
* [[ill at ease]]
* [[ill effects]]
* [[illness]]
* [[ill wind]]
* [[mentally ill]]
* [[be taken ill]]

====Translations====
{{trans-top|suffering from a disease}}
* Danish: [[syg]]
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|ziek}}
* French: {{t+|fr|malade|m|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|krank}}
* Irish: {{t-|ga|tinn|xs=Irish}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|malato}}
{{trans-mid}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|chory}}
* Slovene: [[bolan]] {{m}}, [[bolna]] {{f}}, [[bolno]] {{n}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|enfermo|m}}, {{t-|es|enferma|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|sjuk}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|hasta}}
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{{trans-top|having an urge to vomit}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|misselijk}}
* French: {{t+|fr|écœuré|m}}, {{t+|fr|écœurée|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|übel}}
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* Spanish: {{t+|es|mal}}, {{t-|es|mareado}}
* Swedish: [[illamående]]
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{{trans-top|bad}}
* Danish: {{t-|da|dårlig}}
* French: {{t+|fr|mauvais|m}}, {{t+|fr|mauvaise|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|übel}}
{{trans-mid}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|zły}}
* Swedish: {{t-|sv|illa}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|kötü}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|in hip-hop slang: sublime}}
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=====Translations to be checked=====
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* {{ttbc|Breton}}: [[klañv]] (1)
* {{ttbc|Welsh}}: [[claf]] (1, 2), [[drwg]] (3, 4), [[gwael]] (3, 4)

===Adverb===
{{en-adv}}

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

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

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

====Translations====
{{trans-top|badly}}
* French: {{t+|fr|mal}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|źle}}
{{trans-mid}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|mal}}
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===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: {{t-|de|Übel|n}}
{{trans-mid}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|problem|m}}
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{{trans-top|something damaging}}
* Polish: [[krzywda]] {{f}}
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===References===
* ''Oxford English Dictionary'', 2nd ed., 1989.
* ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary'', 1987-1996.

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