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==English==

===Etymology===
{{etyl|enm}} ''[[ille#Middle English|ille]]'' from {{etyl|non|en}} {{term|illr|illr, īllr|lang=non|bad}} (whence Danish {{term|ild||lang=da|evil}}).

===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'''.''

====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====
* (''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====
{{rel-top|terms derived from ill (adjective)}}
* [[be ill]]
* [[fall ill]]
* [[ill at ease]]
* [[ill effects]]
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* [[illness]]
* [[ill wind]]
* [[mentally ill]]
* [[be taken ill]]
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====Translations====
{{trans-top|suffering from a disease}}
* Arabic: {{t-|ar|مريض|m|tr=mariiD}}
*: Egyptian Arabic: {{rfc-tbot}}{{tø|arz|عيان|m|tr={{LR}}3ayyaan|sc=Arab|xs=Egyptian Arabic}}
* Armenian: {{t-|hy|հիվանդ|tr=hivand}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|хворы|tr=xvóry|xs=Belarusian}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|болен|m|tr=bólen}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t-|cmn|病|tr=bìng|sc=Hani}}
* Czech: {{t-|cs|nemocný}}
* Danish: {{t-|da|syg}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|ziek}}
* Esperanto: {{t-|eo|malsana|xs=Esperanto}}
* French: {{t+|fr|malade|m|f}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|ავადმყოფი|tr=avadmqop'i|sc=Geor}}, {{t|ka|სნეული|tr=sneuli|sc=Geor}}
* German: {{t+|de|krank}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|άρρωστος|m|tr=árrōstos}},  {{t|el|άρρωστη|f|tr=árrōstē}}
* Hebrew: {{qualifier|verb}} {{t|he|חולה|m|alt=חוֹלֶה|tr=cholé}}
* Hindi: {{t|hi|बीमार|tr=bīmār|xs=Hindi}}
* [[Ido]]: {{t+|io|malada|xs=Ido}}
* Irish: {{t-|ga|tinn|xs=Irish}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|malato}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|病気|tr=びょうき, byōki}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|아픈|tr=apeun|sc=Hang}}
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* Latvian: {{t|lv|slims}}, {{t|lv|sasirdzis}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|sergantis }}
* Norwegian: {{t+|no|syk}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|بیمار|tr=bimâr}}, {{t-|fa|مريض|tr=mareez}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|chory}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|doente|m|f}}
* {{trreq|Romanian}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|больной|tr=bol'nój}}, {{qualifier|dated}} {{t+|ru|хворый|tr=xvóryj}}
* [[Scottish Gaelic]]: {{t-|gd|tinn|xs=Scottish Gaelic}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tø|sh|болестан|sc=Cyrl|xs=Serbo-Croatian}}
*: Roman: {{tø|sh|bolestan|xs=Serbo-Croatian}}
* Slovak: {{t-|sk|chorý}}
* Slovene: [[bolan]] {{m}}, [[bolna]] {{f}}, [[bolno]] {{n}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|enfermo|m}}, {{t-|es|enferma|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|sjuk}}
* Thai: {{t|th|ป่วย|tr=bpùay}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|hasta}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|хворий|tr=xvóryj|xs=Ukrainian}}
* Urdu: {{t-|ur|بیمار|tr=bīmār|xs=Urdu}}
* Vietnamese: {{t|vi|bệnh|xs=Vietnamese}}
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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}}, {{t+|de|schlecht}}
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* Norwegian: {{t-|no|kvalm}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|mal}}, {{t-|es|mareado}}
* Swedish: [[illamående]]
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{{trans-top|bad}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|վատ|tr=vat}}
* Danish: {{t-|da|dårlig}}
* French: {{t+|fr|mauvais|m}}, {{t+|fr|mauvaise|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|schlecht}}, {{t+|de|übel}}
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* Norwegian: {{t+|no|dårlig}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|zły}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|illa}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|kötü}}
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{{trans-top|in hip-hop slang: sublime}}
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* {{ttbc|Breton}}: [[klañv]] (1)
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* {{ttbc|Welsh}}: [[claf]] (1, 2), [[drwg]] (3, 4), [[gwael]] (3, 4)
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===Adverb===
{{en-adv}}

# Badly; very incompletely.  Often hyphenated to form an adjectival phrase.
#: ''That move was '''ill'''-planned and '''ill'''-executed.''
# [[scarcely|Scarcely]].
#* {{RQ:Schuster Hepaticae V|3}}
#*: In both groups, however, we find copious and intricate speciation so that, often, species limits are narrow and '''ill''' defined.
#* '''2006''', Julia Borossa (translator), Monique Canto-Sperber (quoted author), in ''[[w:Libération|Libération]]'', 2002 February 2, quoted in [[w:Élisabeth Badinter|Élisabeth Badinter]] (quoting author), ''Dead End Feminism'', Polity, ISBN 9780745633800, [http://books.google.com/books?id=z9IZhL6DPtYC&pg=PA40&dq=ill page 40]:
#*: Is it because this supposes an undifferentiated violence towards others and oneself that I could '''ill''' imagine in a woman?

====Synonyms====
* [[illy]]

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

====Derived terms====
{{rel-top|terms derived from ill (adverb)}}
* [[bode ill]]
* [[ill afford]]
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* [[ill-formed]]
* [[ill-gotten]]
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====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|Trouble]]; [[distress]]; [[misfortune]]; [[adversity]].
#: ''Music won't solve all the world's '''ills''', but it can make them easier to bear.''
# [[harm|Harm]] or [[injury]].
#: ''I wouldn't want you to do me '''ill'''.''
# [[evil|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.''
# {{US|slang}} [[PCP]], [[phencyclidine]]

====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.

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

===Anagrams===
* [[Lil#English|Lil]], [[li'l#English|li'l]], [[lil#English|lil]]

[[Category:1000 English basic words]]

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==Scots==

===Adjective===
{{sco-adj|waur|warst}}

# [[#English|ill]]
# [[bad]], [[evil]], [[wicked]]
# [[harsh]], [[severe]]
# [[profane]]
# [[difficult]], [[troublesome]]
# [[awkward]], [[unskilled]]

===Adverb===
{{sco-adv|waur|warst}}

# [[#English|ill]]
# [[badly]], [[evilly]], [[wickedly]]
# [[harshly]], [[severely]]
# [[profanely]]
# with [[difficulty]]
# [[awkwardly]], [[inexpertly]]

===Noun===
{{sco-noun}}

# [[#English|ill]]
# [[ill will]], [[malice]]

[[ar:ill]]
[[de:ill]]
[[et:ill]]
[[el:ill]]
[[es:ill]]
[[fa:ill]]
[[fr:ill]]
[[ko:ill]]
[[io:ill]]
[[id:ill]]
[[is:ill]]
[[it:ill]]
[[kn:ill]]
[[kk:ill]]
[[ku:ill]]
[[li:ill]]
[[hu:ill]]
[[ml:ill]]
[[my:ill]]
[[ja:ill]]
[[no:ill]]
[[pl:ill]]
[[ru:ill]]
[[simple:ill]]
[[sr:ill]]
[[fi:ill]]
[[sv:ill]]
[[ta:ill]]
[[te:ill]]
[[th:ill]]
[[tr:ill]]
[[vi:ill]]
[[zh:ill]]