ill

Definition

  • noun: bad or unlucky things
  • adjective: not well or healthy
  • adjective: resulting from, accompanied by, or indicative of an evil or malevolent intention
  • usually plural
  • synonyms: immoral, sick, wrong

Examples

  • We just bought a house here last month, and we're still 'getting to know' our neighbors. [=we're still meeting our neighbors; we're still becoming acquainted with our neighbors]

  • It's impossible to 'know' what will happen next. = There's 'no way of knowing' what will happen next. = There's 'no knowing' what will happen next.

  • This is the end of the organization 'as we know it'. [=the organization has changed and will never again be the same as it was]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) wouldn't it? With him being in Switzerland. Come on! What's the matter with you tonight? Yes, perhaps that was it. Perhaps he was ill. Unless, of course, he had disagreements. - I mean, with government policy. - GRANDPA: One hears of such men. Disturbed, most of them, (..)
    2008 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
  • (..) I'll have a car come to collect you both. Are Grandma and Grandpa coming? Hey, did you smell that horrible smell the other day? - Coming from the chimneys. - FATHER: What sort of ill? The day I fell off the swing. - Did you smell it, Mum? - FATHER: Father. Mum. Let me speak to her. (..)
    2008 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas