Dictionary Entry
ill
ill is a 3-letter English word with 17 senses as adjective, noun, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 5 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable.
- 2adjective
Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper.
- 3adjective
Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever.
- 4adjective
Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant.
- 5noun
Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity.
- 6noun
Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil.
- 7adverb
In a ill manner; badly; weakly.
- 8
Contraction for I will or I shall.
- 9noun
an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
- 10adjective
presaging ill fortune- P.B.Shelley
"ill omens"
"ill predictions"
Synonyms
- 11adjective
distressing
"ill manners"
"of ill repute"
- 12adjective
resulting in suffering or adversity
"ill effects"
"it's an ill wind that blows no good"
- 13adjective
indicating hostility or enmity
"you certainly did me an ill turn"
"ill feelings"
- 14adjective
affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
"ill from the monotony of his suffering"
Synonyms
- 15adverb
(`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"
- 16adverb
with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly
"we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"
- 17adverb
unfavorably or with disapproval
"tried not to speak ill of the dead"
"thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
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