Shahi - A visual dictionary

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(adjective)
1. Suffering from a disease.
  I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.
2. Having an urge to vomit.
  Seeing those pictures made me ill.
3. Bad, often connoting abuse or neglect.
  He suffered from ill treatment.
4. Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill, comparative iller, superlative illest.]
  Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?" — Biggie Smalls, The What, 1994.
5. Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
  That band was ill.
(adverb)
1. Badly; very incompletely. Often hyphenated to form an adjectival phrase.
  That move was ill-planned and ill-executed.
2. Scarcely.
  They could ill sustain a serious illness in the family.
(noun)
1. Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
  Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.
2. Harm or injury.
  I wouldn't want you to do me ill.
3. Evil; moral wrongfulness.
  Sociopaths do not seem to grasp the difference between good and ill.
4. A physical ailment; an illness.
  I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.
5. Unfavorable remarks or opinions.
  Do not speak ill of the dead.
6. PCP.

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