Definition of Ill

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Definition of Ill

Ill

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

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

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

Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant.

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

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

In a ill manner; badly; weakly.

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Ill Quotations

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
Buddha

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Winston Churchill

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
William Shakespeare

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Plato

Ill Translations

ill in Afrikaans is siek
ill in Danish is syg
ill in Dutch is ziek, naar
ill in French is malade
ill in German is krank
ill in Italian is egro, malato
ill in Latin is aeger eger, gravatus, aegrus, infirmus
ill in Norwegian is syk
ill in Portuguese is doente
ill in Spanish is enfermo, doliente

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