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Suffering from an illness or disease or feeling unwell
“Infectious complications in critically ill patients can cause increased morbidity and mortality.”
Having an urge to vomit
“I'm starting to feel ill from the stale meat I just consumed.”
Bad or harmful in nature
“For most otherwise healthy people, the virus, while debilitating in the short term, leaves no lasting ill effects.”
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.”
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.”
Bad, harmful, or hostile
“Yet, you should not harbor ill feelings against your mother.”
(slang, somewhat rare) Very good, in a sublime way
“That performance was truly ill and completely worth waiting for.”
Rude or discourteous in manner
“It scarcely ever happens that they are guilty of ill manners without reason.”
Evil or morally wrong
In a life-threatening state of health
A physical (or sometimes figurative) ailment or disease
“Haven't you brought a remedy that can cure me of this ill?”
A problem or difficulty
“The counterculture of the 1970s often gets blamed for every current social ill.”
Any type of harm, injury, hurt or damage
“Such kindhearted people wish ill on nobody, but wish everybody well.”
That which is considered immoral
“Schools are not arenas for social remediation, such that every ill of society may be solved through an innovative school-based intervention.”
A negative consequence or downside of a given course of action
The fact of being evil or wicked in character or behavior
Evils that are hidden
A veterinary anesthetic, used illegally in humans as a hallucinogen
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.”
In an unfavorable or inauspicious manner
“The change in policy bodes ill for the reformative functions of our penal services.”
Barely, or only with difficulty
“The poor community could ill afford luxuries like store-bought blankets and bed coverings.”
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.”
In no way
“You can ill afford to miss another day of school.”
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.”
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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