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ill
 
Adjective ill has 5 senses
  1. ill, sick - not in good physical or mental health; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"
    Antonyms: well, all right, fine, asymptomatic, symptomless, cured, healed, recovered, good
  2. ill - resulting in suffering or adversity; "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good"
    Antonym:     harmless (indirect, via harmful)
  3. ill - distressing; "ill manners"; "of ill repute"
    Antonym:     good (indirect, via bad)
  4. ill - indicating hostility or enmity; "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will"
    Antonym:     amicable (indirect, via hostile)
  5. ill, inauspicious, ominous - 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"
    Antonym: propitious (indirect, via unpropitious)
Adverbial ill has 3 senses
  1. ill, badly, poorly - (`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"
    Antonyms: well, good
  2. ill, badly - unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
    Antonyms: well
  3. ill - with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly; "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"
Noun ill has 1 sense
  1. ailment, complaint, ill - an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
    --1 is a kind of disorder, upset
    --1 has particulars: pip; motion sickness, kinetosis
ill-timed ill-timed prenominal ill-treat ill-treated ill-treatment ill-usage ill-use ill-used ill ill at ease ill at ease predicate ill effects ill fame ill gotten ill health ill humor ill humour

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