Dictionary Entry

ill

Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/il/Used In Literature ↓

Not in good health; sick.

In a Sentence

“He had to cancel his trip because he felt too ill to travel.”

Origin

From Old English "ill", meaning "bad, evil".

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Poetry examples for “ill”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

My sword upon my thigh,
I think on old ill fortunes
Of better men than I.

Along the Grecian gallery,
And brooding on my heavy ill,
I met a statue standing still.

Now the best of friends must part.
Fare you well, for ill fare I:
Live, lads, and I will die."

Long the voice of tears is still
That wept of old the endless ill.

And till they drop they needs must still
Look at you and wish you ill.

Oh that was right, lad, that was brave:
Yours was not an ill for mending,
'Twas best to take it to the grave.

By bridges that Thames runs under,
In London, the town built ill,
'Tis sure small matter for wonder

Ill as yet the eye could see
The eternal masonry,

Ere to a town you journey
Where friends are ill to find.

Yet here, as ev'n in Hell, there must be still
One giant-vice, so excellently ill,
That all beside, one pities, not abhors;