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Adjective
Comparative for suffering from an illness or disease or feeling unwell
“Infectious complications in critically ill patients can cause increased morbidity and mortality.”
Adjective
Comparative for having an urge to vomit
“I'm starting to feel ill from the stale meat I just consumed.”
Adjective
Comparative for bad or harmful in nature
“For most otherwise healthy people, the virus, while debilitating in the short term, leaves no lasting ill effects.”
Adjective
Comparative for not favorable or auspicious
“The people on the upper banks had a report, that the river was bloody, which they considered as an ill omen to the public concerns.”
Adjective
Comparative for poor in quality or judgment
“For a writer's endeavor is to please his readers, and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment.”
Adjective
Comparative for bad, harmful, or hostile
“Yet, you should not harbor ill feelings against your mother.”
Adjective
(slang, somewhat rare) Comparative for very good, in a sublime way
“That performance was truly ill and completely worth waiting for.”
Adjective
Comparative for rude or discourteous in manner
“It scarcely ever happens that they are guilty of ill manners without reason.”
Adverb
Comparative for in a bad, wrong, or imperfect manner
“People were competing with each other for the imaginary prize for being the most ill-mannered human being in that room.”
Adverb
Comparative for in an unfavorable or inauspicious manner
“The change in policy bodes ill for the reformative functions of our penal services.”
Adverb
Comparative for barely, or only with difficulty
“The poor community could ill afford luxuries like store-bought blankets and bed coverings.”
Adverb
Comparative for not to a sufficient or adequate degree
“Awareness that medical students were often ill-prepared for dealing with terminally ill patients led to the systematic introduction of palliative care.”
Adverb
Comparative for in a harsh or oppressive manner
“There is no way of knowing now how many of the migrants of the late nineteenth century were ill-treated.”
Adverb
Comparative for in a fraudulent, illegal or underhanded manner
“Money laundering can sometimes be thought of as the conversion of ill-gotten money into proper assets.”
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