Talk:ill
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"My bill is ill."
Can you provide the exact meaning for the same?
Inw:You've Come a Long Way, Baby the past participle form "illin" occurs, as a euphemism for "fuckin". __meco07:01, 13 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
It can also mean 'not', as in, "They could ill afford to make another mistake."Wrad23:17, 13 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
There is a comment in the source:"worse" and "worst" are incorrect—these are forms of "bad", not "ill". However, dictionaries list the two forms as the comparative and the superlative (ill at Dictionary.com). There is an example ofworse as a comparative ofill:
Google Books also gives examples ofworse-tempered as a comparative ofill-tempered:[1][2]. In a point of view of descriptive linguistics,worse andworse are clearly forms ofill. —TAKASUGI Shinji (talk)02:00, 29 July 2013 (UTC)Reply
No idea what it means, but: "Step back relax and chill as I thrill / The K is back I`m not hereto ill / Laying knowledge through the mic..." -Got To Get by Leila K.Equinox◑10:10, 24 June 2015 (UTC)Reply
Chambers 1908 has some mostly SoP terms (but some aren't?): "Ill-blood, ill-feeling: resentment. adjs. Ill-boding, inauspicious; Ill-bred, badly bred or educated: uncivil. n. Ill-breeding. adjs. Ill-conditioned, in bad condition: churlish; Ill-got = ill-gotten; Ill-haired (Scot.) cross-grained; adj. Ill-wresting, misinterpreting to disadvantage."Equinox◑02:23, 25 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
Any reference to this statement?Microsoft® Encarta® 2009 disagrees with it. See alsohttps://www.wordreference.com/EnglishUsage/worse --Backinstadiums (talk)17:53, 26 December 2019 (UTC)Reply
What meaning is used inill at ease? --Backinstadiums (talk)17:05, 24 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
what doesill mean init's an ill bird that fouls its own nest? --Backinstadiums (talk)17:27, 9 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
Ill can be used in combination with other adjectives or participles to mean "badly, improperly; inadequately:ill-considered (= not thought out well in advance; inappropriate);ill-defined (= not well defined or clearly set out).https://www.wordreference.com/definition/ill
--Backinstadiums (talk)10:37, 28 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
Why are these forms added here specifically for a monosyllabic word? --Backinstadiums (talk)18:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Does the only existing adverb sense ("Not well; imperfectly, badly") cover this adequately? I am not totally convinced.Equinox◑23:39, 11 September 2021 (UTC)Reply