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单词 ill
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illadjective

uk/ɪl/us/ɪl/

ill adjective (NOT WELL)

A2 [ not usually before noun ] not feeling well, or suffering from a disease:

I felt ill so I went home.
He's been ill with meningitis.
Sophia fell ill/was taken ill (= became ill) while on holiday.
He is critically (= very badly) ill in hospital.

More examples

  • He was very ill for a while but he's all right now.
  • She felt quite ill from exhaustion.
  • Don't talk nonsense! She's far too ill to return to work!
  • It was a shock to see him looking so ill.
  • Badly cooked shellfish can make you seriously ill.

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Not fit & healthy

  • bedridden
  • critical list
  • crook
  • danger list
  • dehydrated
  • emaciated
  • far gone
  • frailty
  • groggy
  • infirmity
  • insufficiency
  • knock
  • malaise
  • not agree with sb idiom
  • off-colour
  • organic
  • relapse
  • shadow
  • sick
  • starved

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ill adjective (BAD)

C1 [ before noun ] formal or old-fashioned bad:

ill health
Did you experience any ill effects from the treatment?

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Not of good quality

  • a miserable, poor, etc. excuse for sth idiom
  • apology
  • atrocious
  • awfully
  • badly
  • be an apology for sth idiom
  • clunky
  • come/be a poor second, third, etc. idiom
  • downscale
  • inadequacy
  • inadequate
  • motley
  • mouldy
  • not set the world on fire idiom
  • tacky
  • unappetizing
  • unattractive
  • unimpressed
  • weak sauce
  • worst

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Idiom(s)

be ill at ease
it's an ill wind (that blows nobody any good)

illadverb

uk/ɪl/us/ɪl/

literary badly:

He treated her very ill.
speak ill of sb formal or old-fashioned

to say unkind things about someone:

I realize one shouldn't speak ill of the dead.
augur/bode ill formal or old-fashioned

to be a sign of bad things in the future:

This weather bodes ill for the garden party tonight.
can ill afford (to do sth) formal or old-fashioned

If you can ill afford to do something, it will cause problems for you if you do it:

We can ill afford to lose another member of staff.

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Not of good quality

  • a miserable, poor, etc. excuse for sth idiom
  • apology
  • atrocious
  • awfully
  • badly
  • be an apology for sth idiom
  • clunky
  • come/be a poor second, third, etc. idiom
  • downscale
  • inadequacy
  • inadequate
  • motley
  • mouldy
  • not set the world on fire idiom
  • tacky
  • unappetizing
  • unattractive
  • unimpressed
  • weak sauce
  • worst

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Critical & uncomplimentary
Predicting things and intuition
Merely and barely

illnoun

uk/ɪl/us/ɪl/

[ U ] formal or old-fashioned harm:

I wish her no ill.

[ C usually plural ] a problem:

There seems to be no cure for the country's economic/social ills.

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Damaging and spoiling

  • adulterate
  • alloy
  • at the expense of sb idiom
  • at-risk
  • bandh
  • bang up sb/sth
  • foul
  • gild the lily idiom
  • gloss
  • gnaw
  • gnaw away at sth
  • go west idiom
  • goonda
  • ravages
  • ruin
  • scourge
  • shatter
  • shoot sth up
  • sour
  • tell on sb

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Difficult things and people

ill-prefix

uk/ɪl-/us/ɪl-/

in a way that is bad or not suitable:

ill-prepared
an ill-judged remark

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Linguistics: morphology & parts of words

  • -athon
  • -ative
  • -ee
  • -ese
  • combining form
  • compound
  • disyllabic
  • est
  • monosyllabic
  • monosyllable
  • particle
  • polysyllabic
  • portmanteau word
  • prefix
  • s
  • stem
  • syllable
  • that'd
  • that'll
  • that's

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I'll

uk/aɪl/us/aɪl/

short form of I shall or I will:

I'll be there at 6.00.
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