illとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪl/
• 韻: -ɪl

形容詞

ill (comparative more ill または iller, superlative most ill または illest)

1. (obsolete) Evil; wicked (of people). [13th-19th c.]
   • Francis Atterbury (1663-1732)

     St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     A man who is conscious of having an ill character, cannot justly be angry with those who neglect and slight him.

2. (archaic) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy. [from 13th c.]
   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 2:

     ‘Go bring her. It is ill to keep a lady waiting.’

3. Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel. [from 14th c.]

   He suffered from ill treatment.

4. Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.

   ill manners; ill will

   • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

     […] his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.

5. Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick. [from 15th c.]

   I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.

6. Having an urge to vomit. [from 20th c.]

   Seeing those pictures made me ill.

7. (hip-hop スラング) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
   • 1986, Beastie Boys, License to Ill
   • 1994, Biggie Smalls, The What

     Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?"

8. (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.

   That band was ill.

使用する際の注意点

• The comparative forms iller and illest are used in American English but are less than a quarter as frequent as "more" and "most" forms. The forms iller, illest are quite common in the slang sense "sublime".

同意語

• (suffering from a disease): diseased, poorly (英国用法), sick, under the weather (くだけた用法), unwell
• (having an urge to vomit): disgusted, nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickened
• (bad): bad, mal-
• (in hip-hop スラング: sublime): dope
• See also Thesaurus:diseased

反意語

• (suffering from a disease): fine, hale, healthy, in good health, well
• (bad): good
• (in hip-hop スラング: sublime): wack

派生語

参照

副詞

ill (comparative more ill, superlative most ill)

1. Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House

     Within, I found it, as I had expected, transcendently dismal. The slowly changing shadows waved on it from the heavy trees, were doleful in the last degree; the house was ill-placed, ill-built, ill-planned, and ill-fitted.

   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 3

     In both groups, however, we find copious and intricate speciation so that, often, species limits are narrow and ill defined.

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 541:

     His inflexibility and blindness ill become a leader, for a leader must temper justice with mercy.

   • 2006, Julia Borossa (translator), Monique Canto-Sperber (quoted author), in Libération, 2002 February 2, quoted in Élisabeth Badinter (quoting author), Dead End Feminism, Polity, →ISBN, page 40:

     Is it because this supposes an undifferentiated violence towards others and oneself that I could ill imagine in a woman?

同意語

• illy

反意語

• well

派生語

名詞

ill (複数形 ills)

1. (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
   • William Shakespeare

     That makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

   Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.

2. Harm or injury.

   I wouldn't want you to do me ill.

3. Evil; moral wrongfulness.
   • John Dryden

     Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, / Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill.

4. A physical ailment; an illness.

   I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.

5. (US, slang) PCP, phencyclidine.

派生語

• for good or ill

参照

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Further reading

• ill at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• Lil, Lil', li'l, li'l', lil

語源

I +‎ -'ll

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /aɪl/, /ɑːl/, /al/
• (弱勢) IPA^(key): /əl/, /ʌl/
• 韻: -aɪl
• 異形同音異義語: aisle, isle

短縮形

I'll

1. I will
2. I shall

アナグラム

• Lil, Lil', li'l, li'l', lil

接頭辞

ill-

1. 接頭辞 or combining form added to nouns meaning bad.

   ill-will

   ill-feeling

   ill-judgement

2. 接頭辞 added to verbs and adjectives meaning badly, wrongly or inadequately.

   ill-treat

   ill-prepared