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ill  /ˈɪl/ ? Meaning of "ill"

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Definition(s):

  1. (n) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
  2. (adj) affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
  3. (adj) resulting in suffering or adversity
  4. (adj) distressing
  5. (adj) indicating hostility or enmity
  6. (adj) presaging ill fortune
  7. (adv) (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
  8. (adv) unfavorably or with disapproval
  9. (adv) with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly

Synonym(s)

complaint, inauspicious, ominous, sick, badly, poorly

Antonyms(s)

well

Usage(s):

  1. Stigmatized, abandoned, often locked up, Asia's mentally ill are left to inhabit a living hell.
  2. People with serious mental illness die 25 years earlier than the general population for eminently treatable causes.
  3. He was not terminally ill.
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