ill

Etymology
From, from , , (whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from , from  (whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬).

Adjective

 * 1)  Evil; wicked (of people).
 * 2)  Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
 * 3) Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
 * 4) Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
 * 5) Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
 * 6) Having an urge to vomit.
 * 7)  Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
 * 8)  Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
 * 9)  Unwise; not a good idea.
 * 10)  Bad-tempered.
 * 1) Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
 * 2) Having an urge to vomit.
 * 3)  Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
 * 4)  Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
 * 5)  Unwise; not a good idea.
 * 6)  Bad-tempered.
 * 1)  Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
 * 2)  Unwise; not a good idea.
 * 3)  Bad-tempered.
 * 1)  Unwise; not a good idea.
 * 2)  Bad-tempered.
 * 1)  Bad-tempered.
 * 1)  Bad-tempered.

Usage notes

 * The comparative and superlative  are the standard forms. The forms  and  are also used in American English, but are less than a quarter as frequent as "more" and "most" forms. The forms iller, illest are quite common in the slang sense "sublime".

Synonyms

 * ,, sick, under the weather , unwell
 * , d, nauseous, sick, sickened
 * See also Thesaurus:diseased
 * See also Thesaurus:diseased
 * See also Thesaurus:diseased

Antonyms

 * ,, , in good health, well

Translations

 * Acehnese: saket
 * Afrikaans: siek
 * Aghwan: 𐔱𐔰𐕅
 * Aklanon: masakit
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሕሙም
 * Arabic:
 * Chadian Arabic: مرضان
 * Egyptian Arabic: عيان
 * Moroccan Arabic: مريض
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: հիւանդ, խօթ
 * Aromanian: lãndzit, lãntsid, lãndzidzãt, niputut, shuplicat, hivrit
 * Asturian: enfermu
 * Azerbaijani:, naxoş
 * Bashkir: ауырыу, сирле, сырхау
 * Basque: gaixo
 * Belarusian: хво́ры
 * Bengali:
 * Bislama: siki
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chickasaw: abika
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 病
 * Dungan: бин, бемар
 * Mandarin:
 * Chukchi: тъытԓьэн
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Elfdalian: klien, siuok
 * Erzya: ормав
 * Esperanto: malsana
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: sjúkur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian:, სნეული
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἄρρωστος
 * Greenlandic: napparsimasoq
 * Haitian Creole: malad
 * Hawaiian: maʻi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, lasinn,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: kippiä
 * Interlingua: malade
 * Iranun: masakit
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: lara
 * Kazakh:, науқас, сырқат, дімкәс
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:, , ноокас,
 * Ladino: hazino, hazinu, hazina, malo
 * Lao: ເຈັບ, ຕົກອັບ, ບໍ່ສະບາຍ
 * Latgalian: navasals
 * Latin: īnfirmus,, aegrōtus
 * Latvian: slims, sasirdzis
 * Laz: ზაბუნი
 * Lithuanian: sergantis
 * Livonian: rujā
 * Lushootseed: ʔəsʔi
 * Luxembourgish: krank
 * Macedonian: болен
 * Malay: ,
 * Maltese: marid
 * Mansaka: masakit
 * Maori: wheori, tarutaruhea, manauhea
 * Maranao: kasakit
 * Mingrelian: ლეხიანი
 * Moksha: сяряди
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: өвчтэй
 * Mongolian: ᠥᠪᠡᠳᠴᠢᠲᠡᠢ
 * Norman: malade
 * Northern Sami: buohcci, buozas
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: sjuk
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: aakozi
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: больнъ
 * Old English: seoc, ādliġ
 * Old Javanese: lara
 * Old Saxon: siok
 * Ottoman Turkish: خسته
 * Pashto:, مريض
 * Persian: ,
 * Pijin: siki
 * Plautdietsch: krank
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romagnol: mêl
 * Romani: nasvalo
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: malsaun
 * Russian: ,
 * Samoan: ma'i
 * Sango: kobela
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tinn
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бо̏лестан
 * Roman:
 * Sindhi: بیمار
 * Sinhalese: අසනීප
 * Slovak:, nemocný
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:, xanuun
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: chóry
 * Upper Sorbian: chory
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: -gonjwa
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: may sakit
 * Tajik:, ,
 * Talysh: noxəş
 * Asalemi: مریض
 * Tat: naxuş, bimar
 * Tatar:
 * Tetum: moras
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ན, ནན་ཏེ
 * Tigrinya:
 * Tocharian B: tekiññe
 * Tok Pisin: sik
 * Tongan: puke
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: syrkaw, hassa, kesel, näsag
 * Ukrainian: хво́рий
 * Urdu: بیمار,, علیل
 * Uyghur: كېسەل
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: siik
 * White Hmong: mob
 * Yiddish: קראַנק, קרענקלעך, געלעגן צו בעט
 * Zhuang: bingh


 * Danish: kvalm
 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: adhascaideach
 * Norwegian: kvalm
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Breton: (1)
 * Welsh: (1, 2),  (3, 4),  (3, 4)

Adverb

 * 1) Not well; imperfectly, badly
 * 2) * 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?
 * 1) * 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?
 * 1) * 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?

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: болно
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1)  Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
 * 2) Harm or injury.
 * 3) Evil; moral wrongfulness.
 * 4) A physical ailment; an illness.
 * 5)  PCP, phencyclidine.
 * 1) Evil; moral wrongfulness.
 * 2) A physical ailment; an illness.
 * 3)  PCP, phencyclidine.
 * 1) A physical ailment; an illness.
 * 2)  PCP, phencyclidine.
 * 1)  PCP, phencyclidine.
 * 1)  PCP, phencyclidine.

Translations

 * German:
 * Macedonian: зло
 * Polish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Volapük:


 * Polish:

Verb

 * 1)  To behave aggressively.

Etymology
From, from. Along 🇨🇬, probably cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) bad
 * 2) sore
 * 3) angry, wroth
 * 4)  strong, very

Adjective

 * 1) bad, evil, wicked
 * 2) harsh, severe
 * 3) profane
 * 4) difficult, troublesome
 * 5) awkward, unskilled
 * 1) awkward, unskilled

Adverb

 * 1) badly, evilly, wickedly
 * 2) harshly, severely
 * 3) profanely
 * 4) with difficulty
 * 5) awkwardly, inexpertly
 * 1) awkwardly, inexpertly

Noun

 * 1) ill will, malice
 * 1) ill will, malice

Etymology 1
From, from.