Meaning

• (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.

  "Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear."

• Harm or injury.

  "I wouldn't want you to do me ill."

• Evil; moral wrongfulness.

• A physical ailment; an illness.

  "I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills."

• PCP, phencyclidine.

Meaning

• Evil; wicked (of people).

• Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.

• Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.

  "He suffered from ill treatment."

• Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.

  "ill manners; ill will"

• Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.

  "I've been ill with the flu for the past few days."

• Having an urge to vomit.

  "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.

  "That band was ill."

• Unwise; not a good idea.

Meaning

• Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.