ill

Signification (English)

Adv

Not well; imperfectly, badly

Adj

1. (obsolete) 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. (slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
8. (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
9. Unwise; not a good idea.
10. Bad-tempered.

Noun

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

Verb

To behave aggressively.

Concepts

malade

🤢

mal

malsain

maladie

écœurée

souffrant

écœuré

malaise

mauvais

👎

personne en deuil

dépravé

dissolu

faiblement

infirmité

mauvaise

méchant

corrompu

Synonyms

sick

🤢

bad

👎

unwell

ailing

badly

evil

diseased

unhealthy

suffer

ailment

illness

sickly

hurt

ache

sickness

indisposed

inauspicious

poorly

painful

feel sick

complaint

weak

wicked

sick of

sore

become sick

fall ill

wrong

immoral

feel unwell

get ill

have a fever

be sick

disease

naughtily

nasty

unfortunate

infirm

tough

fall sick

vicious

patient

feeble

ominous

harm

maleficent

inappropriately

infirmity

injury

invalid

lame

let us

lousy

low

mad

mal

malady

malefaction

malefic

maleficence

malicious

mean

meanly

mischief

mischievous

miserable

morbid

naughty

nauseous

off

offensive

peaked

regrettable

severely

sickening

spiteful

still

stricken

sufferer

suffering

thinly

too bad

troubled

unappetizing

uncomfortable

unfavourable

unfriendly

unhappy

☹️

unimpressively

unkind

unpleasantness

unprepossessing

unpresentable

unsavory

unsavoury

vileness

weakly

weakness

have fever

in pain

not well

old person

sinistrous

unappetising

unretentive

pain

to be unwell

without energy

frumpishly

ill-conditioning

sick

🤢

adversity

afflicted

ail

amiss

arduously

awful

awkward

base

big

bitter

bitterly

black

broken

bruising

bum

condition

contagious

crippled

damage

deaf

defective

deplorable

detriment

dirty

disagreeable

disorder

distressed

dizzy

💫

dying

ending

enfeebled

evil-minded

feebly

frail

gravely

grievous

grievously

hard

harmful

harmfulness

hostile

illegibility

illy

impaired

inadequately

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɪl/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: ille

Cognate with islandais: illur

Cognate with norvégien: ille

Cognate with danois: ilde

Cognate with latin: ulcus

Cognate with grec ancien: ἕλκος

Cognate with sanskrit: अर्शस्

In summary

From Middle English ille (“evil; wicked”), from Old Norse illr (adj), illa (adverb), ilt (noun) (whence Icelandic illur, Norwegian ille, Danish ilde), from Proto-Germanic *ilhilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁elḱ- (whence Latin ulcus (“sore”), Ancient Greek ἕλκος (hélkos, “wound, ulcer”), Sanskrit अर्शस् (árśas, “hemorrhoids”).

Phrases

It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest .

C'est un oiseau malade qui accroche son propre nid.