What is "ill"

Ill \Ill\ ([i^]l), a. [The regular comparative and superlative are wanting, their places being supplied by worseand worst, from another root.] [OE. ill, ille, Icel. illr; akin to Sw. illa, adv., Dan. ilde, adv.]

1. Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable.

   Neither is it ill air only that maketh an ill seat, but ill ways, ill markets, and ill neighbors.
   --Bacon.

   There 's some ill planet reigns.
   --Shak.

2. Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper.

   Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example.
   --Shak.

3. Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever.

   I am in health, I breathe, and see thee ill.
   --Shak.

4. Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant. That 's an ill phrase. --Shak. Ill at ease, uneasy; uncomfortable; anxious. ``I am very ill at ease.'' --Shak. Ill blood, enmity; resentment; bad blood. Ill breeding, lack of good breeding; rudeness. Ill fame, ill or bad repute; as, a house of ill fame, a house where lewd persons meet for illicit intercourse. Ill humor, a disagreeable mood; bad temper. Ill nature, bad disposition or temperament; sullenness; esp., a disposition to cause unhappiness to others. Ill temper, anger; moroseness; crossness. Ill turn.

   1. An unkind act.

   2. A slight attack of illness. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Ill will, unkindness; enmity; malevolence.

      Syn: Bad; evil; wrong; wicked; sick; unwell.

Ill \Ill\, n.

1. Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity.

   Who can all sense of others' ills escape Is but a brute at best in human shape.
   --Tate.

   That makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of.
   --Shak.

2. Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil.

   Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill.
   --Dryden.

Ill \Ill\, adv. In a ill manner; badly; weakly.

How ill this taper burns!
--Shak.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
--Goldsmith.

Note: Ill, like above, well, and so, is used before many participal adjectives, in its usual adverbal sense. When the two words are used as an epithet preceding the noun qualified they are commonly hyphened; in other cases they are written separatively; as, an ill-educated man; he was ill educated; an ill-formed plan; the plan, however ill formed, was acceptable. Ao, also, the following: ill-affected or ill affected, ill-arranged or ill arranged, ill-assorted or ill assorted, ill-boding or ill boding, ill-bred or ill bred, ill-conditioned, ill-conducted, ill-considered, ill-devised, ill-disposed, ill-doing, ill-fairing, ill-fated, ill-favored, ill-featured, ill-formed, ill-gotten, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-looking, ill-mannered, ill-matched, ill-meaning, ill-minded, ill-natured, ill-omened, ill-proportioned, ill-provided, ill-required, ill-sorted, ill-starred, ill-tempered, ill-timed, ill-trained, ill-used, and the like.

c.1200, "morally evil" (other 13c. senses were "malevolent, hurtful, unfortunate, difficult"), from Old Norse illr "ill, bad," of unknown origin. Not considered to be related to evil. Main modern sense of "sick, unhealthy, unwell" is first recorded mid-15c., probably related to Old Norse idiom "it is bad to me." Slang inverted sense of "very good, cool" is 1980s. As a noun, "something evil," from mid-13c.

early 13c., "to do evil to," from ill (adj.). Meaing "to speak disparagingly" is from 1520s. Related: Illed; illing.

c.1200, "wickedly; with hostility;" see ill (adj.). Meaning "not well, poorly" is from c.1300. It generally has not shifted to the realm of physical sickess, as the adjective has done. Ill-fated recorded from 1710; ill-informed from 1824; ill-tempered from c.1600; ill-starred from c.1600. Generally contrasted with well, hence the useful, but now obsolete or obscure illcome (1570s), illfare (c.1300), and illth.

a. 1 (label en obsolete) evil; wicked (of people). (13th-19th c.) 2 (label en archaic) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy. (from 13th c.) 3 Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel. (from 14th c.) 4 Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard. adv. Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly. n. (context often pluralized English) trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.

1. adj. not in good physical or mental health; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" [syn: sick] [ant: well]

2. resulting in suffering or adversity; "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good"

3. distressing; "ill manners"; "of ill repute"

4. indicating hostility or enmity; "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will"

5. 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" [syn: inauspicious, ominous]

n. an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining [syn: ailment, complaint]

1. adv. (`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" [syn: badly, poorly] [ant: well]

2. unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern" [syn: badly] [ant: well]

3. with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly; "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"

The Ill (; ) is a river in Alsace, in north-eastern France. It is a left bank, 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 quarter, where its waters were once used to power mills and tanneries. One of these channels is the Canal du Faux-Rempart that, together with the main channel of the Ill, surrounds the Grande Île or historic centre of Strasbourg.

The Ill (all capitals: ILL) is a 72 km long tributary of the Rhine in the western Austrian province of Vorarlberg.

It flows from the northern slopes of the Silvretta mountain range and then runs north-west through Vorarlberg. The Ill passes through the Montafon and Walgau valleys and the town Feldkirch. It joins the river Rhine a few kilometers northwest of Feldkirch ("Illspitz"), at the border with Switzerland. The Ill has several dams with hydroelectric power stations.

Category:Alpine Rhine basin Category:Rivers of Vorarlberg Category:Bregenz Forest Mountains Category:Verwall Alps Category:Silvretta Alps

Ill (Saarland) is a river of Saarland, Germany.