ill
noun/ɪl/
/ɪl/
- [plural] people who are ill
- Even the seriously ill cannot get tests done immediately.
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- [usually plural] (formal) a problem or harmful thing; an illness
- social/economic ills
- the ills of the modern world
- [uncountable] (literary) harm; bad luck
- I may not like him, but I wish him no ill.
Word OriginMiddle English (in the senses ‘wicked’, ‘malevolent’, ‘harmful’, and ‘difficult’): from Old Norse illr ‘evil, difficult’, of unknown origin.
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