ill vs healty vs well
ill
Definitions
adjective
- indicating hostility or enmity
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- presaging ill fortune
- distressing
- resulting in suffering or adversity
adverb
- (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
- unfavorably or with disapproval
- with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly
noun
- an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
Examples
The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.
When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu.
