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

  • (..) till thou applaud the deed. Full, full of scorpions, is my mind. Thou marvell'st at my words. Hold thee still. Things bad begun make themselves strong by ill. Come, seeling night. Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day and, with thy bloody and invisible hand, cancel... (..)
    2015 Macbeth
  • (..) the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles to betray's in deepest consequence. MACBETH: This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, why hath it given me earnest of success, commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. (..)
    2015 Macbeth