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Definition: Ill |
IllAdjective1. 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". Adverb1. (`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". Noun1. 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) |
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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. |
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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).
- Infectious diseases
- cholera, dysentery, influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, bubonic plague, smallpox, Rift Valley fever, Chagas disease, Ebola, Lassa fever, severe acute respiratory syndrome
- sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS
- Genetic diseases
- cystic fibrosis, homocystinuria, Huntingtons chorea, muscular dystrophy, phenylketonuria, porphyria, sickle-cell anemia, Tay-Sachs disease, thalassaemia, Down syndrome, color blindness, some forms of vasovagal syncope, von Hippel-Lindau disease, ...
- Conditions of injury, malformation, or disuse
- stroke, atherosclerosis, atrophy, myopia, osteoarthritis, ...
- Autoimmune disorders
- rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Type 1 diabetes, scleroderma, myasthenia gravis
- Toxic diseases
- argyria, alcoholic hepatitis, iron poisoning, lead poisoning, ...
- Nutritional diseases
- beriberi, rickets, scurvy, iron-deficiency anemia, ... (see also vitamins and dietary minerals)
- Endocrine diseases
- Syndromes and diseases of unknown etiology, or of mixed causes
- Alzheimers disease, cancer, hypoglycemia, chronic fatigue syndrome, acquired neuromyotonia (Isaac's syndrome), Guillain-Barre syndrome, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, Meniere's disease
- Neurological disorders and mental illnesses
- schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, dementia
- Psychogenic illness
- multiple chemical sensitivity, mass sociogenic illness, ...
- Conditions
- psoriasis, poison ivy rash, etc.
See also:
- List of diseases for a list of common, or diseases.
- List of rare diseases for a huge list of 6000+ diseases, many very rare.
External links
- Center for Disease Control Health Topics A-Z, fact sheets about many common diseases
- The Merck Manual, detailed description of most diseases, freely searchable online.
- MedLine Plus Health Topics, descriptions of most diseases, with access to current research articles.
- What is degenerative disease?: A look into the nutritional deficiency aspect of degenerative disease
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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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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.
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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
Ill | English | Illinois | N/A |
| Ill. | English | Illustrations | Publishing & Graphic Arts |
| Ill. | German | Illustrationen | Publishing & Graphic Arts |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: IllSynonyms: inauspicious (adj), ominous (adj), sick (adj), badly (adv), poorly (adv), ailment (n), complaint (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: well (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Ill |
| English words defined with "ill": House of ill fame ♦ ill fame ♦ To hear ill. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ill": Ill May-day, Ill Omens ♦ louping ill ♦ seriously ill ♦ very 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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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) | |
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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. |
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| "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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| 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. | |
| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
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) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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 |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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." |
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| Speaker | Phrase(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. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | At home, fellow-citizens, you best know whether we have done well or ill. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | Our form of government is ill adapted to the responsibilities which inevitably follow permanent limitation of the independence of other peoples. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | The choices we make, for good or ill, may well shape the state of the Union for generations yet to come. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Community 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 | 1977-1981 | In 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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 85.98% | 2,218 | 3,964 |
| Adverb (general) | 12.28% | 317 | 16,212 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.67% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,579 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Ill | Last name | 130 | 56,571 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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), 瘏 (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), り (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 |