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ills

/ɪlz/

ills is the plural of ill.

Meaning of ill

Noun

ill (countable and uncountable, plural ills)

  1. (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
    • Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.
  2. Harm or injury.
    • I wouldn't want you to do me ill.
  3. Evil; moral wrongfulness.
    • Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, / Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill.1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number)
  4. A physical ailment; an illness.
    • I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.
  5. (US, slang, uncountable) PCP, phencyclidine.

See all 18 meanings of ill

Noun capitalized: ILLs

ILLs

  1. (plural) plural of ILL

Words that rhyme with ills

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Questions about ills

What is ills the plural of?
Ills is the plural of ill.
What part of speech is ills?
Ills is a noun.
How do you pronounce ills?
Ills is pronounced /ɪlz/.

Words near ills in the dictionary

  1. illoricated
  2. illos
  3. Illowa
  4. illoyal
  5. illoyalty
  6. ills
  7. Illsley
  8. illsome
  9. illth
  10. illtreat
  11. illtreated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ills (page history and authors); ILLs (page history and authors); ill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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