Usually means: Suffering from disease or ailment.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word ill:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. I'll, Ill, ill: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. I'll, Ill, ill, the ill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. I'll, Ill, ill, ill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. I'll, Ill, ill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ill: Vocabulary.com
  6. I'LL, I�ll, I''ll, I'll, Ill, Ill, Ill, i'l'l, i'll, ill, ill, ill: Wordnik
  7. I'll, i'll, ill, ill-: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. I'll, Ill, ill: Wiktionary
  9. I'll, ill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. I'll, ill, ill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ill: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. I'll, ill, ill: Dictionary.com
  13. ill: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. I'll, I'll (manga), I'll (singer), Ill (Austria), Ill (France), Ill (Vorarlberg), Ill (disambiguation), Ill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ill: Rhymezone
  19. ill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ILL, ill: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. ill: Free Dictionary
  23. ill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. I'll, Ill, ill: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. ill: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Ill: Wordnik

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ill (river), ill: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Ill (river), ill: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ILL: Acronym Finder
  2. ILL: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. ill: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ill, ill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Ill: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ill: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

(Note: See illing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (obsolete) Evil; wicked (of people).
adjective:  (archaic) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
adjective:  Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
adjective:  Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
adjective:  Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
adjective:  Having an urge to vomit.
adjective:  (hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
adjective:  (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
adjective:  (dated) Unwise; not a good idea.
adjective:  (Appalachia) Bad-tempered.
adverb:  Not well; imperfectly, badly
noun:  (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
noun:  Harm or injury.
noun:  Evil; moral wrongfulness.
noun:  A physical ailment; an illness.
noun:  (US, slang, uncountable) PCP, phencyclidine.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To behave aggressively.
noun:  Initialism of interlibrary loan. [(library science) A loan of an item (such as a book, article, or sound recording) between two library systems or similar institutions.]

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