/ɪl/
#1571 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
Not well in your body; sick.
Word origin
From Old Norse illr, meaning bad; the sense of unwell grew later in British English.
- Origin
- Old Norse
- Root
- illr
Examples
.
"Ill" means not well in your body.
.
"Ill" usually comes after the verb "be".
.
"Make you ill" means cause you to stop being well.
Used in
Stories
(5)Grammar articles
(4)British vs American grammar: have got, gotten, the team are, and the other quiet differences
Linking words in English: however, although, despite, whereas and therefore
Participle clauses in English: -ing and -ed clauses, and the dangling participle trap
Word formation in English: how suffixes build word families and give away the part of speech
Add to review queue
Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.
Go to my review queueThis word is part of lesson 32.