ailment, complaint, ill (adj)

an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

ill, sick (adj)

affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

"ill from the monotony of his suffering"

ill (adj)

resulting in suffering or adversity

"ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good"

ill (adj)

distressing

"ill manners"; "of ill repute"

ill (adj)

indicating hostility or enmity

"you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will"

ill, inauspicious, ominous (adverb)

presaging ill fortune

"ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"

ill, badly, poorly (adverb)

(`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"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived plan"

ill, badly (adverb)

unfavorably or with disapproval

"tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"

ill (adverb)

with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly

"we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"

Ill (Contraction)

I will

Ill (Contraction)

I shall

ill (Noun)

Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.

ill (Noun)

Harm or injury.

ill (Noun)

Evil; moral wrongfulness.

ill (Noun)

A physical ailment; an illness.

ill (Noun)

Unfavorable remarks or opinions.

ill (Noun)

PCP, phencyclidine

ill (Adverb)

Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.

ill (Adjective)

Evil; wicked (of people).

ill (Adjective)

Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.

ill (Adjective)

Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.

ill (Adjective)

Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.

ill (Adjective)

Having an urge to vomit.

ill (Adjective)

Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill, comparative iller, superlative illest.]

ill (Adjective)

Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.

Ill

The Ill is a river in Alsace, in north-eastern France. It is a "left-side", or western tributary of the Rhine. It starts down from its source near the village of Winkel, in the Jura mountains, with a resurgence near Ligsdorf, turns around Ferrette on its east side, and then runs northward through Alsace, flowing parallel to the Rhine. Taking apart the Largue, also coming from the Jura mountains near Illfurth, it receives several tributaries from the west bank Vosges mountains after passing through Altkirch: the Doller in Mulhouse, the Thur near Ensisheim, the Lauch in Colmar, the Fecht in Illhaeusern, the Giessen in Sélestat, the Andlau near Fegersheim, the Ehn near Geispolsheim, the Bruche next to Strasbourg and the Souffel upstream from La Wantzenau before meeting with the Rhine downstream from Gambsheim's lock. As the Ill nears the city of Mulhouse, most of its flow is diverted into a discharge channel leading to the Doller, protecting the historical center of the town from floods. Flowing through the city of Strasbourg, the river forms part of the 17th century fortifications and passes through a series of locks and channels in the picturesque old town, including the Petite-France district, where its waters were once used to power mills and tanneries.