See also: Wt/sco/I'll
English edit
Etymology edit
Middle Inglis ille from Old Norse Script error: The function "template_l_term" does not exist. (whence Danish Script error: The function "template_l_term" does not exist.).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(No language code specified.): /ɪl/
Audio (US) (file) - Lua error in Module:Wt/sco/rhymes at line 57: The parameter "2" is required..
Adjective edit
ill (comparative mair Wt/sco/ill, superlative maist Wt/sco/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, often connoting abuse or neglect.
- He suffered from ill treatment.
- (Template:Context 1) 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.
- Template:Wt/sco/Slang Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- That band was ill.
Usage notes edit
- 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 edit
- (suffering from a disease): diseased, poorly (UK), sick, under the weather (informal), unwell
- (having an urge to vomit): disgusted, nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickened
- (bad): bad, mal-
- (in hip-hop slang: sublime): dope
- See also Wikisaurus:diseased
Antonyms edit
- (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 edit
terms derived from ill (adjective)
Translations edit
suffering from a disease
|
|
having an urge to vomit
bad
in hip-hop slang: sublime
- The translations albo need tae be checked an insertit above intae the appropriate translation tables, removin ony nummers. Nummers dae nae necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:Hou tae check translations.
Translations tae be checked
|
|
Adverb edit
ill (comparative mair Wt/sco/ill, superlative maist Wt/sco/ill)
- Badly; very incompletely. Often hyphenated to form an adjectival phrase.
- That move was ill-planned and ill-executed.
- Scarcely.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 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 Libération, 2002 February 2, quoted in Élisabeth Badinter (quoting author), Dead End Feminism, Polity, ISBN 9780745633800, page 40:
- Is it because this supposes an undifferentiated violence towards others and oneself that I could ill imagine in a woman?
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 3
Synonyms edit
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
terms derived from ill (adverb)
Translations edit
Noun edit
ill (plural Wt/sco/ills)
- (Template:Context 1) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
- Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.
- Harm or injury.
- I wouldn't want you to do me ill.
- Evil; moral wrongfulness.
- Sociopaths do not seem to grasp the difference between good and ill.
- A physical ailment; an illness.
- I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.
- Unfavorable remarks or opinions.
- Do not speak ill of the dead.
- PCP, phencyclidine
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
something damaging
|
References edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
Statistics edit
Anagrams edit
Scots edit
Adjective edit
Wt/sco/ill (comparative waur, superlative warst)
Adverb edit
Wt/sco/ill (comparative waur, superlative warst)
Noun edit
ill (plural ills)
[[en:wikt:Template:Wt/sco/]]