ill
Because it is a word with a single syllable, ill is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofill
- (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
Example: "Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear."
- Harm or injury.
Example: "I wouldn't want you to do me ill."
- Evil; moral wrongfulness.
- A physical ailment; an illness.
Example: "I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills."
- PCP, phencyclidine.
- Evil; wicked (of people).
- Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
Example: "He suffered from ill treatment."
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
Example: "ill manners; ill will"
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
Example: "I've been ill with the flu for the past few days."
- Having an urge to vomit.
Example: "Seeing those pictures made me ill."
- (hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
Example: "That band was ill."
- Unwise; not a good idea.
- Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.
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