Main entry: complaint, ailment, ill
Definition: an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
Main entry: ill, inauspicious, ominous
Definition: presaging ill fortune
Usage: 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
Main entry: ill
Definition: distressing
Usage: ill manners; of ill repute
Main entry: ill
Definition: resulting in suffering or adversity
Usage: ill effects; it's an ill wind that blows no good
Main entry: ill
Definition: indicating hostility or enmity
Usage: you certainly did me an ill turn; ill feelings; ill will
Definition: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
Usage: ill from the monotony of his suffering
Main entry: ill, badly, poorly
Definition: (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
Usage: 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
Main entry: ill
Definition: with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly
Usage: we can ill afford to buy a new car just now
Definition: unfavorably or with disapproval
Usage: tried not to speak ill of the dead; thought badly of him for his lack of concern