ill
English
Etymology
From Средњи Енглески ille (“evil; wicked”), from Old Norse illr (adj), illa (adverb), ilt (именица) (whence Исландски illur, Норвешки ille, Дански ilde), from Пра-Германски *ilhilaz, from Пра-Индо-Европски *h₁elk- (whence Латински ulcus (“sore”), Антички Грчки ἕλκος (hélkos, “wound, ulcer”), Санскрт अर्शस् (árśas, “hemorrhoids”) (whence Хинди अर्श (arś)).[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
ill (comparative worse or iller or more ill, superlative worst or illest or most ill)
- (obsolete) Evil; wicked (of people). [13th-19th c.]Шаблон:tracking/defdate/hyphen
- Francis Atterbury (1663-1732)
- St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it.
- Шаблон:RQ:Fielding Tom Jones
- A man who is conscious of having an ill character, cannot justly be angry with those who neglect and slight him.
- Francis Atterbury (1663-1732)
- (archaic) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy. [from 13th c.]
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 2:
- ‘Go bring her. It is ill to keep a lady waiting.’
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 2:
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel. [from 14th c.]
- He suffered from ill treatment.
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
- ill manners; ill will
- (deprecated use of
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parameter)1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:- […] his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick. [from 15th c.]
- I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.
- Having an urge to vomit. [from 20th c.]
- Seeing those pictures made me ill.
- (hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- 1986, Beastie Boys, License to Ill
- 1994, Biggie Smalls, The What
- Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?"
- (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- That band was ill.
Usage notes
- The comparative worse and superlative worst are the standard forms. The forms iller and illest are also used in American English, but are less than a quarter as frequent as "more" and "most" forms. The forms iller, illest are quite common in the slang sense "sublime".
Synonyms
- (suffering from a disease): diseased, poorly (UK), sick, under the weather (informal), unwell
- (having an urge to vomit): disgusted, nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickened
- (bad): bad, mal-
- (in hip-hop slang: sublime): dope
- See also Thesaurus:diseased
Antonyms
- (suffering from a disease): fine, hale, healthy, in good health, well
- (bad): good
- (in hip-hop slang: sublime): wack
Derived terms
Translations
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References
- ↑ Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages, s.v. "ulcus" (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 637.
Adverb
ill (comparative more ill, superlative most ill)
- Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
- Within, I found it, as I had expected, transcendently dismal. The slowly changing shadows waved on it from the heavy trees, were doleful in the last degree; the house was ill-placed, ill-built, ill-planned, and ill-fitted.
- Шаблон:RQ:Schuster Hepaticae
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 541:
- His inflexibility and blindness ill become a leader, for a leader must temper justice with mercy.
- 2006, Julia Borossa (translator), Monique Canto-Sperber (quoted author), in Libération, 2002 February 2, quoted in Élisabeth Badinter (quoting author), Dead End Feminism, Polity, →ISBN, page 40:
- Is it because this supposes an undifferentiated violence towards others and oneself that I could ill imagine in a woman?
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
ill (plural ills)
- (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
- William Shakespeare
- That makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of.
- (deprecated use of
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parameter)1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:- Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
- Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.
- William Shakespeare
- Harm or injury.
- I wouldn't want you to do me ill.
- Evil; moral wrongfulness.
- John Dryden
- Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, / Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill.
- John Dryden
- A physical ailment; an illness.
- I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.
- (US, slang) PCP, phencyclidine.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
Further reading
- ill at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
Scots
Adjective
ill (comparative waur, superlative warst)
Adverb
ill (comparative waur, superlative warst)
Noun
ill (plural ills)
Westrobothnian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse illr, from Пра-Германски *ilhilaz, from Пра-Индо-Европски * h₁elk-.
Adjective
ill (neuter illt)
- evil, bad
- Han iles onga
- The evil one's kids
- Ja har illt i fotom
- I have pain in my feet.
- illt om styvra
- lack of money
- Han har illt uti säg
- He is concerned.
- Han har illt ini säg
- He has stomach pains.
- Ji hav illt hóvudä
- I have a headache.
- Han iles onga
Derived terms
ill (енглески)
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Морфолошке варијације:
- позитив: ill, компаратив: iller, суперлатив: illest
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Преводи
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Сродни чланци са Википедије:
- [1] ill
Сличне речи:
- Странице са грешкама у скрипти
- Енглески изрази наслеђени од Средњи Енглески
- Енглески појмови изведени из Средњи Енглески
- Енглески појмови изведени из Old Norse
- Енглески појмови изведени из Пра-Германски
- Пра-Германски црвене везе
- Пра-Германски црвене везе/м
- Енглески појмови изведени из Пра-Индо-Европски
- Пра-Индо-Европски црвене везе
- Пра-Индо-Европски црвене везе/м
- Термини са редундантним транслитерацијама/hi
- Енглески 1-слог речи
- Енглески термини са ИПА изговором
- Енглески појмови са аудио везама
- Rhymes:Енглески/ɪl
- Енглески придеви
- Енглески terms with obsolete писму
- Енглески terms with archaic писму
- Енглески термини са примерима коришћења
- Енглески термини са наводима
- Енглески slang
- Фински црвене везе
- Фински црвене везе/т+
- Антички Грчки црвене везе
- Антички Грчки црвене везе/т
- Италијански црвене везе
- Италијански црвене везе/т+
- Португалски црвене везе
- Португалски црвене везе/т+
- Руски црвене везе
- Руски црвене везе/т+
- Шпански црвене везе
- Шпански црвене везе/т+
- Захтеви за преиспитивање Бретонски преводи
- Захтеви за преиспитивање Велшки преводи
- Енглески прилози
- Енглески леме
- Енглески именице
- Енглески бројевне именице
- American Енглески
- Шкотски adjective
- Шкотски adverb
- Шкотски леме
- Шкотски именице
- Westrobothnian изрази наслеђени од Old Norse
- Westrobothnian појмови изведени из Old Norse
- Westrobothnian изрази наслеђени од Пра-Германски
- Westrobothnian појмови изведени из Пра-Германски
- Westrobothnian појмови изведени из Пра-Индо-Европски
- Westrobothnian adjective
- Westrobothnian термини са примерима коришћења
- Енглески придев