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• Ill — Ill, adv. In a ill manner; badly; weakly. [1913 Webster] How ill this taper burns! Shak. [1913 Webster] Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] Note: Ill, like above, well,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Ill — ([i^]l), a. [The regular comparative and superlative are wanting, their places being supplied by worseand worst, from another root.] [OE. ill, ille, Icel. illr; akin to Sw. illa, adv., Dan. ilde, adv.] 1. Contrary to good, in a physical sense;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• ill — ill, sick Ill and sick share responsibilities in peculiar ways, and are not always interchangeable. To begin with, ill is more usually predicative (placed after a verb, as in She was ill), whereas sick occurs naturally in attributive position… …   Modern English usage

• ILL — (in der Schriftart „Courier“: Ill) ist der Name verschiedener Flüsse: die rechtsrheinische Ill, siehe Ill (Vorarlberg) die linksrheinische Ill, siehe Ill (Elsass) den Bach Ill, siehe Ill (Saarland) Ill ist: ein Begriff in der Hip Hop Kultur siehe …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• ill — ill1 [il] adj. worse, worst [ME < ON illr (replacing OE yfel, evil, in many senses): prob. < Gmc * ilhila < IE base * elk , hungry, bad > OIr elc, bad] 1. characterized by, causing, or tending to cause harm or evil; specif., a)… …   English World dictionary

• Ill — (Ill) heißen: Ill (Vorarlberg), rechtsrheinischer Fluss in Vorarlberg Ill (Elsass), linksrheinischer Fluss im Frankreich Ill (Saarland), Bach im Saarland Ill ist der Name folgender Personen: Alfred Ill, Romanfigur, Protagonist der tragischen… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• ill. — ill. 〈in bibliograf. Angaben Abk. für〉 illustriert * * * ill. = illustriert. * * * Ill.,   Abkürzung für den Bundesstaat Illinois, USA.   * * * ill. = illustriert …   Universal-Lexikon

• ill — [adj1] sick afflicted, ailing, a wreck*, below par*, bummed*, diseased, down, down with, feeling awful, feeling rotten, feeling terrible, got the bug*, indisposed, infirm, laid low*, off one’s feet*, on sick list*, out of sorts*, peaked, poorly,… …   New thesaurus

• ill — ► ADJECTIVE 1) not in full health; unwell. 2) poor in quality. 3) harmful, hostile, or unfavourable. ► ADVERB 1) badly, wrongly, or imperfectly: ill chosen. 2) only with difficulty. ► NOUN …   English terms dictionary

• Ill — Ill, n. 1. Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity. [1913 Webster] Who can all sense of others ills escape Is but a brute at best in human shape.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English