well (gesund) vs ill

Definitions

adjective

1. indicating hostility or enmity
2. affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
3. presaging ill fortune
4. distressing
5. resulting in suffering or adversity

adverb

1. (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
2. unfavorably or with disapproval
3. with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly

noun

1. 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.

These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys.

Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country.

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