ill
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Is ill a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Evil; wicked (of people).Examples: "St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it."; "A man who is conscious of having an ill character, cannot justly be angry with those who neglect and slight him."obsolete
2. (archaic) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.Examples: "‘Go bring her. It is ill to keep a lady waiting.’"archaic
3. (slang, chiefly hip-hop) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.Examples: "This is the illest beat I've ever heard."; "Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?""Synonyms: dopeslang
4. (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.Examples: "That band was ill."slang
5. (dated) Unwise; not a good idea.Examples: "Oh that when the devil and flesh entice the sinner to sport with and make a mock of sin, Prov. x. 23, he would but consider, it is ill jesting with edged tools, it is ill jesting with unquenchable burnings; […]"; "They arrested everybody—and it is ill to resist a drunken Tommy with a loaded rifle!"dated
6. (Appalachia) Bad-tempered.Synonyms: diseased, poorly, sick, under the weather, unwell, ailingAppalachia
noun (English)
1. (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.Examples: "Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear."; "That makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of."; "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."countableuncountable
2. (US, slang, uncountable) PCP, phencyclidine.USslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, slang, dated) To behave aggressively.Examples: "D.M.C.: You been illin' lately. Run: So, I'm illin'. Am I illin'? Chillin'! You know what I'm sayin'? Chillin'."datedintransitiveslang
Definition source: Wiktionary