ill

Adjective

• 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
    

• indicating hostility or enmity
  • you certainly did me an ill turn
    
  • ill feelings
    
  • ill will
    

• distressing
  • ill manners
    
  • of ill repute
    

• resulting in suffering or adversity
  • ill effects
    
  • it's an ill wind that blows no good
    

• affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
  • ill from the monotony of his suffering
    

Adverb

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

• unfavorably or with disapproval
  • tried not to speak ill of the dead
    
  • thought badly of him for his lack of concern
    

• (`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
    

Noun

• an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  inauspicious , ominous , sick , badly , poorly , ailment , complaint
• Antonyms: 
  well , good