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Ill

Definition: Ill

Ill

Adjective

1. Not in good physical or mental health; "ill from the monotony of his suffering".

2. Resulting in suffering or adversity; "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good".

3. Distressing; "ill manners"; "of ill repute".

4. Indicating hostility or enmity; "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will".

5. Presaging ill-fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley;"a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government".

Adverb

1. (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived plan".

2. Unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern".

3. With difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly; "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now".

Noun

1. An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Ill \Ill\, adjective. [The regular comparative and superlative are wanting, their places being supplied by worseand worst, from another root.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Ill

DomainDefinition

Slang

Verb. Source: Standard English: Cool or very awsome. Definition: Very cool or awsome. Context: Used between teenagers. Social Source: Teenagers from South Eugene High School. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Tips from 1870

Usage: Illy, Ill. Do not use illy for ill. The former is becoming obsolete, and the latter, as an adverb, is taking its place. Say "An ill-ventilated room," not "an illy-ventilated room."
Usage: Sick, Ill. There is a growing tendency to discriminate between sickness and illness, limiting the words sick and sickness to some slight disturbance of the physical system, as nausea, and applying the words ill and illness to protracted disease and disordered health. Source: Slips of Speech.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Disease

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In common usage, a disease is any abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort or dysfunction. Often used metaphorically for pathological conditions of other things, as in disease of society. Stricter medical usage sometimes distinguishes a disease, which has a known specific cause or causes (called its etiology), from a syndrome, which is a collection of symptoms that often occur together but for which there is no known cause. Also, many medical terms that describe symptoms are often called "diseases", especially when the cause of the symptom is unknown.

The largest and best-known category, infectious diseases are those caused by transmissible infectious agents such as bacteria, fungi, parasites, viruses, and prions. Closely related though not infectious diseases in the strictest sense are parasitic diseases caused by protozoa and worms. There are also genetic diseases caused by the presence or absence of genes in the affected person's DNA; toxic diseases caused by exposure to environmental toxins such as heavy metals; nutritional diseases caused by lack or deficiency in certain nutrients; conditions caused by injury, malformation, or disuse of parts of the body; autoimmune diseases caused by immune system attacks on the body's own tissue; diseases caused by the patient's own beliefs; and diseases causes by combinations of these, and of course totally unknown causes.

The World Health Organization publishes a comprehensive list of diseases known as International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD).

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Institut Laue-Langevin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Internationally-financed scientific facility, in Grenoble, France, offering the neutrons coming out of a nuclear reactor for different experiments, including elastic and inelastic neutron scattering.

The name is due to the scientists Max von Laue and Paul Langevin.

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Institut Laue-Langevin."

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Lead poisoning

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Lead poisoning is a condition caused by increased levels of blood serum lead levels. The average person has less than 10 micrograms per decaliter, or 10 parts per million, ppm, of lead in their blood serum. People who have been exposed to an unusual amount of lead will have lead serum levels higher than 20 ppm - most clinical symptoms of lead poisoning begin at around 100 ppm. The symptoms of lead poisoning include reduced IQ and, in extreme cases, seizure.

Outside of occupational hazards, the majority of lead poisoning occurs in children under age twelve. The main sources of poisoning are ingestion of lead contaminated soil (this is less of a problem in countries that no longer have leaded gasoline) and lead based paints. This is particularly a problem in older houses where the sweet tasting lead paint is likely to chip.

Once in the body, lead is biologically inactive – its toxic properties come from lead's ability to mimic other biologically important metals, the most notable of which are iron or zinc. Lead is able to bind to and interact with the same proteins and molecules as iron, but after replacing iron, those molecules function differently and fail to carry out the same reactions.

Most lead poisoning symptoms are thought to occur by interfering with an essential enzyme Delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase, or ALAD. ALAD is a zinc binding protein which is important in the biosynthesis of heme, the cofactor found in hemoglobin. Genetic mutations of ALAD cause the disease porphyria, a disease which was highlighted in the movie The Madness of King George.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lead poisoning."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Ill

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

Ill

EnglishIllinoisN/A
Ill.EnglishIllustrationsPublishing & Graphic Arts
Ill.GermanIllustrationenPublishing & Graphic Arts

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Ill

Synonyms: inauspicious (adj), ominous (adj), sick (adj), badly (adv), poorly (adv), ailment (n), complaint (n). (additional references)
Antonym: well (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ill

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Evil

Noun: evil, ill, harm, hurt., mischief, nuisance; machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to.

Adverb: amis, wrong, ill, to one's cost

Inexpedience

Bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible; dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core.

Adverb: badly; Adjective:; wrong, ill; to one's cost; where the shoe pinches.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ill

English words defined with "ill": House of ill fameill fameTo hear ill. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ill": Ill May-day, Ill Omenslouping illseriously illvery seriously ill. (references)
Etymologies containing "ill": Yvel. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Ill" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Welsh (they).

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Modern Usage: Ill

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Bear me no ill will my love we are now even (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Oh. Because you know, it seems to me that, aside from being a little mentally ill, she's pretty normal (Benny & Joon; writing credit: Barry Berman)

'Lathspell' I name him. Ill news is an ill guest (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Well, he will be soon, he's very ill. (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

Too ill to sleep, too tired to stay awake, but the sickness is on its way. (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.)

Lyrics

Its the birdy birdy man ill do it again (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers)

Ill make you feel at home (I Wanna Sex You Up; performing artist: Color Me Badd)

Think ill stay for a while (Promise; performing artist: Eve 6)

Where you stop and ill begin (Big Machine; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

I'm grown, still ill ladies love to be a deal, like Bleek (Hey Papi; performing artist: Jay-Z)

Clever

There is a pill for every ill, and a bill for every pill. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)

It's an Ill Wind (1939)

When the Cook Fell Ill (1914)

Ill Starred Babbie (1914)

He Was Not Ill Only Unhappy (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Ill

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Job To Die For: Why So Many Americans are Killed, Injured or Made Ill at Work and What to Do About It (reference)

  • On Being Ill (reference)

  • Recovery Yoga: A Practical Guide for Chronically Ill, Injured, and Post-Operative People (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Ill

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Photo Album: Ill

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Listeria monocytogenes is the infectious agent responsible for the food borne illness Listeriosis. In the United States, an estimated 2,500 persons become seriously ill with listeriosis each year. Of these, 500 die. Credit: CDC.

The Lunar Receiving Station shipped in refurbished condition to CDC by NASA, was to be used in the event one of the CDC team members became ill while working with the first Ebola virus outbreak. It is currently stored at CDC's Lawrenceville facility. Credit: CDC.

Fuels specialist from the 375th Logistics Support Squadron at Scott Air Force Base, Ill.

Airman Basic Wendell Rush stands in front of his fellow airmen prior to basic military training graduation here Oct. 6. Rush, of Centralia, Ill., signed the 34,000th enlistment contract of fiscal 2000 in July, signifying the Air Force's attainment of its.

South facade from southwest. Photograph by Cervin Robinson, August 18, 1963. (Reproduction Number: HABS, ILL,16-CHIG,33-2) The Robie House has the distinction of being the most frequently requested structure in the HABS and HAER collections. When Frederick C. Robie, a 33-year old engineer and bicycle manufacturing company president, wanted to build a new house, he sought out Frank Lloyd Wright. One of the best known of Wright's early Prairie houses, it was completed in 1909 and remains an icon of the modern movement in architecture. Credit: Library of Congress.

The hopelessly ill and the mentally sick ... / WHO by A.S. Kochar. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Veterans Administration Hospital, Danville, Ill. : Front view. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The Court House, Mt. Vernon, Ill., 1856. Credit: Library of Congress.

National Bank, Shawnetown [i.e. Shawneetown], Ill., 1835. Credit: Library of Congress.

She had been ill, quite ill, they told her. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Ill
 

"Second train" by Brendan Paxton
Commentary: "The other train- since u liked the other one in black and white, ill make this one b&w too. the colours on the other one were cool, but this one was green with white graffiti, really ugly, but its umm.... modern? lol."
"Grandmas house 2" by Liz Bogus
Commentary: "Some shots of my grandparents house that they are moving out of, ill miss that old house. If you use this pic, id luv to see what you do with it :) send me over an email with what you have done: liz@owned.nu."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Ill".

PlayCaption
Blither; blithering; idiot; idiotic; incomprehensible; insane; institutionalized; crazy; crazed; out of your mind; out of his mind; out of my mind; mentally ill; aberrant; bewildered; confused; crazed; delirious; demented; deranged; deviant; deviate; ding.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Ill

AuthorQuotation

Democritus

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Epictetus

The good or ill of man lies within his own will.

John Heywood

An ill wind that bloweth no man to good.

Miguel de Cervantes

Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

MoliFre

Books and marriage go ill together.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

The Seven Sages

Do not speak ill of the dead.

William Shakespeare

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Ill

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

This is that power to which children are commanded obedience, that the pains and care of their parents may not be increased, or ill rewarded. (Second Treatise of Government)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

Thus, whatever happens, and thus only, shall we be secure ourselves and able to work together for the high and simple causes that are dear to us and bode no ill to any. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

John F. Kennedy

1961

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Ill

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

Emma was not required, by any subsequent discovery, to retract her ill opinion of Mrs. Elton

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

He was a fine old man, but looked sadly ill and worn

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

Who suffers by his ill whims

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The change may be for good or ill, and is partly, perhaps, for both

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Every thief who exceeded the human average in smallness or in bigness, was ill at ease in the costumes of the Changer

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Alas! for whose sake did I that ill deed

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labor and ill food, the rest were in a very weak condition

The Tempest

William Shakespeare

Miranda: There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ill

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Most infected persons have no apparent ill effects. (references)

ECT has not been useful in chronically ill schizophrenic patients. (references)

Both ill persons and carriers shed S. Typhi in their feces (stool). (references)

Business

Legislators have already responded to the ill will shared by many over restructuring. (references)

Put another way, the number of bed-ridden or seriously ill Japanese is expected to increase from 2.8 million at present, to over 5 million by 2025. This dramatic demographic change will have a profound impact on Japan's healthcare system. (references)

Many rural Chinese cannot afford to seek care; according to a 1992-3 MOH survey, 40.6% of those rural patients referred to hospitals did not seek care. Even middle class urban Chinese fear the day they or their family members become ill because of the daunting prospect of uninsured medical bills. (references)

Children

Nepal

The mentally retarded are associated with the mentally ill. (references)

India

Three children died after consuming the food, and nearly 1,000 others became ill. (references)

Bangladesh

Government facilities for treating the mentally ill or the retarded are inadequate. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

On September 3, Kitova's third trial began but was recessed on October 26 because of her ill health. (references)

Iran

In July 1999, Mirzapanah, who had been sentenced to 3 years in prison, became ill and was hospitalized. (references)

China

Prior to sensitive anniversaries, authorities in urban areas rounded up "undesirables," including the homeless, the unemployed, migrant workers, those without proper residence or work permits, petty criminals, prostitutes, and the mentally ill or persons with disabilities. (references)

Discrimination

Monaco

It differentiates between rights that are accorded to nationals (including preference in employment, free education, and assistance to the ill or unemployed) and those accorded to all residents, for example, freedom of religion and inviolability of the home. (references)

Economic History

Turkey

The constitution prohibits torture or ill treatment. (references)

Brazil

However, Neves became ill in March and died a month later. (references)

Human Rights

Kazakhstan

Another 170 gravely ill prisoners died shortly after being released. (references)

East Timor

The trial had been postponed October to November because Bere was ill. (references)

Korea

On October 27, Kim Byung-kwan was released from prison due to ill health. (references)

Minorities

Belgium

In 2000 the Government expanded the mandate of the center to fight discrimination on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, birth, civil status, ill health, age, and disability. (references)

Political Economy

Haiti

The SIU is no longer ill equipped and inexperienced; however, it lacks a mandate from the country's political leaders and is largely defunct. (references)

Albania

One of the most serious problems involving public order and internal security is the fact that police officers largely are untrained, ill paid, and often unreliable. (references)

Political Rights

Malaysia

Originally appointed for a 2-year term beginning in January, Ainum, citing ill health, resigned in November, and was replaced at the end of the year. (references)

Worker Rights

China

A court awarded $27,400 (226,800 RMB) for each death and awards from $4,700 (38,960 RMB) to $47,050 (389,600 RMB) for those still ill. (references)

Romania

The roles and responsibilities of the several agencies that enforce child labor laws remain ill defined, and these laws often have not been enforced. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy. Moses Mendlessohn having fallen ill sent for a Christian physician, who at once diagnosed the philosopher's disorder as trichinosis, but tactfully gave it another name. "You need and immediate change of diet," he said; "you must eat six ounces of pork every other day." "Pork?" shrieked the patient -- "pork? Nothing shall induce me to touch it!" "Do you mean that?" the doctor gravely asked. "I swear it!" "Good! -- then I will undertake to cure you."

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Ill

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Celine Dion

Well, a part of me stayed with you, but I needed to take a long break, I needed to have a normal life for just a little bit. My husband got ill almost three years ago.

Priscilla Presley

The Dream Foundation is equivalent to the Make-A-Wish foundation for children, only this is for terminally ill adults.

Rush Limbaugh

Anybody who believes that government-run health care is better than the current system should take an ill relative to Britain or Canada.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Ill

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809At home, fellow-citizens, you best know whether we have done well or ill.

Herbert C. Hoover

1929-1933Our form of government is ill adapted to the responsibilities which inevitably follow permanent limitation of the independence of other peoples.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963The choices we make, for good or ill, may well shape the state of the Union for generations yet to come.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Community centers can help the mentally ill and improve health care for school-age children from poor families, including services for the mentally retarded.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981In addition, the Act specifically provides for prevention and support services to the chronically mentally ill to prevent unnecessary institutionalization and for the development of community-based mental health services.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Ill

"Ill" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 85.98% of the time. "Ill" is used about 2,579 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)85.98%2,2183,964
Adverb (general)12.28%31716,212
Noun (proper)1.67%4352,181
Unclassified Items0.08%2245,945
                    Total100.00%2,579N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Ill

The following table summarizes the usage of "ill" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
IllLast name13056,571
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Ill

Expressions using "ill": as ill luck would have it augur ill be a ill omen be critically ill be desperately ill be ill be ill at ease be ill to be pleased be ill with a cold be of ill report be quite ill be taken ill become ill bird of ill omen bode ill Commitment of Mentally Ill Dental Care for Chronically Ill deserve ill of do ill fall ill fall ill with fare ill fared ill fearful of being ill feel ill feel ill at ease Feeling ill get ill go ill with smb. go on ill house of ill fame house of ill repute i am ill i can ill afford to ill at ease ill blood ill bred ill breeding ill disposed ill effect ill effects ill fame ill fated ill feeling ill fortune ill founded ill gotten ill gotten gains ill health ill humor ill humour ill luck ill management ill mannered ill nature ill natured ill news flies apace ill omen ill person ill repute ill service ill shaped ill temper ill tempered ill timed ill treat ill turn ill use ill weeds grow apace ill will ill with fear In ill part Interjection: woe to! beshrew! ruat coelum! ill betide look ill louping ill make ill make smb. ill from cold maybe he is ill mean ill meet with ill usage mentally ill no ill feeling! of ill fame of ill repute on the ground of ill health pretend to be ill seriously ill seriously ill patient sham ill speak ill speak ill of speak ill of behind one's back speak ill of smb. speaking ill of take ill take it ill take smth. ill of smb. terminally ill think ill of smb. To be ill off to go ill with. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "ill": ill-adapted, ill-adjusted, ill-advice, ill-advised, ill-advisedly, ill-affected, ill-afford, ill-afforded, ill-aimed, ill-applied, ill-appreciated, ill-argued, ill-armed, ill-arranged, ill-articulated, ill-assorted, ill-assorted couple, ill-assortedly, ill-assortment, ill-at-ease, ill-attended, ill-balanced, ill-becoming, ill-befits, ill-befitting, ill-behaved, ill-being, Ill-boding, ill-bred, ill-breeding, ill-built, ill-camouflaged, ill-centralised, ill-chartered, ill-chosen, ill-clad, ill-clothed, ill-colonized, ill-complexioned, ill-concealed, ill-conceived, ill-conditioned, ill-considered, ill-constructed, ill-contained, ill-controlled, ill-coordinated, ill-curtained, ill-cut, ill-decorated, ill-deed, ill-defined, ill-definedness, ill-deserved, ill-designed, ill-devised, ill-digested, ill-directed, ill-discipline, ill-disciplined, ill-disguised, ill-disposed, ill-distributed, ill-documented, ill-doer, ill-done, ill-done-by, ill-dressed, ill-earned, ill-ease, ill-educated, ill-effect, ill-effects, ill-endowed, ill-equipped, ill-executed, ill-explained, ill-expressed, ill-fame, ill-famed, ill-fare, ill-fated, ill-favored, Ill-favoredly, Ill-favoredness, ill-favour, ill-favoured, ill-featured, ill-fed, ill-feeling, ill-feelings, ill-fitted, ill-fitting, ill-focused, ill-focussed, ill-formed, ill-formedness, ill-formulated, ill-fortune, ill-fortuned, ill-fortunes, ill-found, ill-founded, ill-furnished, ill-glimpsed, ill-gotten, ill-gotten gains never prosper, ill-grace, ill-groomed, ill-guarded, ill-health, ill-heath, ill-hidden, ill-housed, ill-humored, ill-humour, ill-humoured, ill-humouredly, ill-informed, ill-informedly, ill-intentioned, ill-judged, ill-justified, ill-kempt, ill-kept, ill-known, ill-life, ill-lighted, ill-lit, Ill-lived, Ill-looking, ill-lookingness, ill-looks, ill-loved, ill-luck, ill-made, ill-maintained, ill-managed, ill-mannered, ill-mannered person, ill-manneredly, ill-manners, ill-matched, ill-matchedly, ill-matching, Ill-minded, ill-named, ill-nature, ill-natured, Ill-naturedly, Ill-naturedness, ill-nourished, Ill-nurtured, ill-observed, ill-omen, ill-omened, ill-omens, ill-ordered, ill-organised, ill-organized, ill-paid, ill-painted, ill-paved, ill-perforated, ill-performed, ill-placed, ill-planned, ill-planning, ill-played, ill-pleased, ill-powdered, ill-prepared, ill-preparedness, ill-presented, ill-preserved, ill-programmed, ill-proportioned, ill-publicised, ill-punctuated, ill-qualified, ill-quipped, ill-rained, ill-read, ill-reason, ill-recalled, ill-received, ill-recorded, ill-regarded, ill-regulated, ill-rehearsed, ill-relationship, ill-remembered, ill-repair, ill-repaired, ill-reputation, ill-repute, ill-researched, ill-resourced, ill-rewarded, ill-secured, ill-seized, ill-served, ill-shaped, ill-shapen, ill-shapes, ill-shaved, ill-shaven, ill-shod, ill-sited, ill-sorted, ill-sorted incompatible mismated unsuited, ill-spelt, ill-spoken, ill-sprung, ill-starred, ill-starred day, ill-started, ill-structured, ill-suited, ill-supervised, ill-supplied, ill-targeted, ill-taught, ill-temper, ill-tempered, ill-tempered person, ill-tempered woman, ill-temperedly, ill-temperered, ill-tended, ill-termed, ill-tested, ill-thought, ill-thought-out, ill-time, ill-timed, ill-trained, ill-treat, ill-treated, ill-treating, ill-treatment, ill-tuned, ill-understood, ill-united, ill-usage, ill-use, ill-used, ill-ventilated, ill-washed, Ill-will, ill-wind, Ill-wisher, ill-wishers, ill-wishing, ill-wrapped, ill-wresting, ill-writers, ill-written.

Ending with "ill": critically-ill, joint-ill, mentally-ill, terminally-ill.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ill

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ill nino

376

ill lyrics

41

ill chat

279

edwin mccain ill be

38

chicago ill

267

b b if ill suited

38

ill

212

rockford ill

33

ill lottery

176

correction department ill

30

ill mitch

94

ill be there

29

alliance ill mentally national

82

ill map

27

sports ill

81

peoria ill

27

ill be

76

springfield ill

25

ill lyrics nino

76

ill harmonics

25

edwin mccain ill be lyrics

70

moline ill

24

ill be missing you

69

ill love make

22

galena ill

63

quincy ill

22

ill lotto

57

field ill olympia

21

mentally ill

56

ill be there for you

20

correction dept ill

50

ill state

20

ill leave never

45

decatur ill

20

ill lyrics there

45

ill mars

19

ill niño

42

ill will

19

ill lyrics missing

41

ill press will

19
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Ill

Language Translations for "ill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

siek (sick, unwell). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

i sëmurë (ailing, bad, case, compulsive, diseased, down, invalid, morbid, noisome, pathological, patient, seedy, sick, sufferer, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), i keq (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blinking, bodeful, cancerous, catty, cheesy, crook, dark, defective, dubious, evil, heavy, ill disposed, ill natured, ill-conditioned, lousy, low-grade, malign, malignant, nasty, naughty, perverse, poor, punk, shady, shoddy, sinister, ugly, vicious, vile, wicked), i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, savage, scabrous, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry), sëmundje (affection, ailment, canker, complaint, disease, disorder, distemper, evil, illness, infirmity, sickness), e keqe (affliction, bad, evil, harm, hopeless, pest, pestilence, wrong). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

سو (evil, offence), ‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏منحوس (ill fated, ill-starred, inauspicious, luckless, unlucky), ‏مريض (ailing, diseased, inmate, invalid, sick, sick list, sickly, sufferer, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), ‏وحشي (atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, feral, fiendish, fierce, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, remorseless, ruffian, savage, truculent, unfeeling, vicious, wanton, wild), ‏سقيم (below par, poor, puny, rickety, sick, sickly, unwell, wan), ‏سوء (evil, mal, malady, mis), ‏عليل (below par, bland, queer, sick), ‏إضطراب (coil, disorder, distraction, disturbance, dust, flurry, flutter, nervousness, perturbation, ramp, rout, ruction, ruffle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, uproar), ‏ردئ (bad, base, bastard, bum, coarse, common, doggie, evil, fearful, fiendish, foul, inferior, nice, paltry, poor, poorness, putrid, second rate, slim, sour, tacky, tinpot, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, watery), ‏شرير (bad, black, black-hearted, dark, devil, diabolic, diabolical, evil, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malign, nasty, naughty, rascally, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rude, sinister, spiteful, unholy, vicious, wicked), ‏شرس (gnarl, grim, pungent, ratty, ruthless, sour, surly), ‏بلاء (curse, hardship, illness, inflexion, infliction, ordeal, plague, sore, trouble, worry), ‏بعدم إرتياح, ‏بصعوبة (barely, hardly, heavily, scarcely, with difficulty). (various references)

   

Basque

  

gaisotu (fall ill to). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

незадоволителен (dissatisfactory, inadequate, lame, lamentable, meager, meagre, sour, unsatisfactory), лошо (bad, badly, hardly, mis-, poorly), едва ли (hardly, scarce, scarcely), жесток (bestial, bloody, butcherly, cruel, dark, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, draconic, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, ghoulish, grinding, harsh, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iron, mean, merciless, monstrous, outrageous, sanguinary, shrewd, slashing, truculent, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, unrelenting), злина (blackness, evil, wrong), зле (badly), зло (abuse, bad, cancer, curse, disaster, evil, harm, mischief, ulcer, wrong), зъл (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blackhearted, evil, ill disposed, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, malign, malignant, mean, scratchy, sinister, snaky, stuffy, sulphurous, swart, tricky, venomous, vicious, waspish, wicked), мъчен (awkward, difficult, formidable, hairy, rum, rummy, stiff, tight, tough, trying), болен (ailing, bad, diseased, invalid, patient, punk, sick, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), неблагоприятно (mis-), раздразнителен (bad tempered, chippy, choleric, edgy, excitable, explosive, fretful, gingery, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, irascible, irritable, liverish, livery, nervous, nervy, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, raspy, ratty, snappish, stroppy, techy, tetchy, touchy, vinegary), невъзпитан (cubbish, ill mannered, low, low-bred, mannerless, rude, surly, unbred, underbred, unmannered, unmannerly), нещо лошо (stinker), нещо неблагоприятно, враждебен (adverse, aggressive, hostile, inimical, irreconcilable, opponent, opposing, rancorous, sullen, unfriendly), вреда (damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, harm, hurt, injury, mischief, noxiousness, prejudice, scathe, shock), вреден (adverse, bad, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, inimical, injurious, maleficent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, prejudicial), капризен (capricious, erratic, faddish, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fastidious, fickle, fractious, freakish, freaky, fretful, inconstant, maggoty, particular, petulant, skittish, tricksy, vagarious, vagrant, wayward, whimsical), криво (aslant, awry), трудно (hard, hardily), недостатъчно (under-). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

malalt (sick, unwell). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

生病 (sick), (be injured), 不适, 不善 (bad, not good at, not to be pooh-poohed, quite impressive). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nemocný (bad, diseased, invalid, sick, sick man, weak), churavý (ailing, indisposed, poorly, sick, valetudinary), špatný (bad, black, defective, evil, faulty, improper, inferior, low, poor, weak, wicked, worthless, wrong), špatnì (badly, in a bad way, poorly, wrong, wrongly). (various references)

   

Danish

  

syg (sick, unwell). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ziek (sick, unwell), naar (about, according as, according to, along, as, bleak, by, dismal, dreary, for, ghastly, grisly, horrible, long for, nasty, sick, to, toward, towards, untranslated, unwell, yearn). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

malsana (sick). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

sjúkur (sick, unwell). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مشکل (Difficult, Hard, Knot, Problem, Uphill), ناخوش (Morbid, Sick, Unhealthy, Unsound, Unwell), ناشی (Awkward, Gauche, Jackleg, Laity, Maladroit, Muff, Rube, Unperfect), غیردوستانه (Inimical), سوء , زیان اور (Bad, Deleterious, Evil, Malignant, Nocuous, Pernicious), زیان (Damage, Detriment, Disadvantage, Disservice, Drawback, Evil, Harm, Hurt, Loss, Scathe, Washout), خطرناک (Calamitous, Disastrous, Dngerous, Grave, Herculean, Jeopardous, Malignant, Perilous, Serious, Venturesome), خراب (Rotten, Ruinous), ازروی بدخواهی وشرارت , رنجور (Infirm, Painful, Wretched), بیمار (Bedridden, Patient, Sick, Unhealthy), بطورناقص (Half), بد (Amiss, Bad, Dreadful, Evil, Junky, Rum, Unfavorable), ببدی . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sairas (diseased, indisposed, morbid, patholigical, patient, sick, sick person, unwell), pahoin (badly), kipeä (sick, sore), huonosti (badly, poorly). (various references)

   

French

  

malade. (various references)

   

German

  

krank (ailing, bad, crook, diseased, down, invalid, invalidly, not well, poorly, sick, sickly, unsound, unwell), übel (bad, bad (worse, badly, disreputable, evil, evilly, foul, foully, illness, malady, malignancy, nasty, nauseated, nauseous, noxious, objectionable, offensive, offensively, queasy, rank, sick, ugly, ulcer, undesirable, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, vile, wicked). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άρρωστος (ghastly, sick). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לקוי (blemish, defect, defective, deficiency, deficient, eclipse, failing, failure, fault, faulty, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequate, shortcoming, spoilt, stricken, unsound, vicious, wanting), חולה (infirm, inmate, patient, sick, unfit, unwell). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

beteg (a patient, ailing, bad, be ill, be poorly, crook, dicky, diseased, invalid, patient, sick, to be ill, to be out of health, to be under the weather, to feel crummy, to feel ill, unsound, unwell), rosszul (Amiss, badly, crookedly, evil, evilly, Illy, in a bad way, nohow, poorly, raunchy, scalawag, scruffy, to misdirect, to misuse sg, wrong). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

veikur (faint, light, sick, unwell, weak), sjúkur (sick, unwell). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sakit (ache, ail, ailment, diseased, painful, sick), lara (painful, sick), gering (esp, of animal). (various references)

   

Irish

  

breoite (sick). (various references)

   

Italian

  

malato (bad, diseased, morbid, sick, sick person, sufferer, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), ammalato (diseased, sick, sick person, unwell). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

虐待 (ill-treatment, oppression), 遺恨 (enmity, grudge, ill-will), 患う (to fall ill), 不吉 (bad luck, ill omen, inauspiciousness, ominous, sinister). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

あくめい (bad name, bad reputation, ill repute), ふけんこう (ill health, poor health, unhealthy), ののしる (to abuse, to speak ill of), かたがこる (ill at ease, stiff shoulders), かげぐち (backbiting, malicious gossip, speaking ill behind someone's back), いごこちがわるい (ill at ease, not feel at home, uncomfortable), いこん (enmity, grudge, ill-will), いんしゅのがい (ill effects of drinking), いじわるい (ill-natured), いじわる (ill-tempered, malicious, unkind), (2.44 miles, advantage, an official, benefit, clever, diarrhea, diarrhoea, ill-mannered, interest, profit, reason, ri, rustic), わずらう (to be afflicted with, to be concerned about, to fall ill, to suffer from, to worry about), あくひょう (bad reputation, ill repute, infamy, unfavorable criticism), あくせん (bad coin, close contest, hard fighting, ill-gotten money), はなもとじあん (ill-considered plan, superficial view), むしゃくしゃする (to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to fret), じゅうしょうしゃ (severely wounded person, the seriously ill), じゅうたい (column, congestion, critical state, delay, serious condition, seriously ill, stagnation, zodiac), けなす (to speak ill of), やみつく (to be addicted to, to be taken ill, to become absorbed in, to give oneself up), やむ (to be ill, to be over, to cease, to fall ill, to stop), あくかんじょう (animosity, bad impression, ill feeling, ill will), やまいがあつい (be seriously ill), あくい (bad faith, evil intention, ill will, malice, shabby clothes, spite), わだかまりなく (with no ill feeling), わるぎ (distrust, evil intent, ill feeling, ill-will, malice), あっかん (best part, crook, feeling feverish and chilly, highlight, ill or unhappy feeling, masterpiece, rascal, ruffian, scoundrel, villain), あっかんじょう (animosity, bad impression, ill feeling, ill will), あくみょう (bad name, bad reputation, ill repute), ふきげん (displeasure, ill humor, pout, sullenness), やまいとしょうする (to feign illness, to pretend to be ill), くさす (to speak ill of), ふにあい (ill-matched, improper, unbecoming, unsuitable, unworthy of), びょうきにかこつけて (under the pretext of ill health), びょうが (drawing, ill in bed, painting), きとくである (to be dangerously ill, to be in critical condition), しょうわる (ill-natured, inconstancy), びょうしょうにっし (day-by-day record of a patient's condition, diary written while ill in bed), しのび (sneak thief, spy, stealing, surreptitious visit to house of ill repute), びょうしん (ill health, second hand, weak constitution), ししょうくつ (brothel, house of ill fame), がらのわるい (ill-bred), おみまい (calling on someone who is ill, enquiry), おかん (ague, chill, feeling feverish and chilly, ill or unhappy feeling, p