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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
P. Chidambaram

Meaning of "ills" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ILLS

ills  [ɪlz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ILLS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ills is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ILLS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ills in the English dictionary

The definition of ills in the dictionary is problems or misfortunes.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ILLS

illiterateness
illness
illocution
illocutionary
illocutionary act
illogic
illogical
illogicality
illogically
illogicalness
illude
illume
illuminable
illuminance
illuminant
illuminate
illuminated
illuminati
illuminating
illuminatingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE ILLS

as old as the hills
balls
bells
Beverly Hills
by the balls
communication skills
falls
hills
management skills
Mills
Niagara Falls
overalls
pills
polls
Rolls
stalls
the hills
walls
Wells
Wills

Synonyms and antonyms of ills in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ILLS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ills» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ills
acrimonious · adverse · affliction · ailing · anguish · antagonistic · at a push · at death´s door · bad · badly · barely · bellicose · belligerent · bodeful · by no means · cantankerous · criminally · crook · cross · damage · damaging · deficiently · deleterious · destruction · destructive · detrimental · dicky · dire · disadvantageous · diseased · dishonestly · distress · disturbing · evil · feeble · foreboding · foul · foully · frail · funny · gloomy · grief · hardly · hardship · harm · harmful · harsh · hateful · hostile · hurt · hurtful · ill-disposed · illegally · illegitimately · illicitly · imperfectly · inadequately · inauspicious · inauspiciously · indisposed · infirm · inimical · iniquitous · injurious · injury · insufficiently · just · laid up · maleficent · malevolent · malice · malicious · menacing · mischief · misery · misfortune · nauseous · noxious · off-colour · ominous · out of sorts · pain · peaky · pernicious · poorly · problem · queasy · queer · rancorous · ruinous · scarcely · seedy · sick · sickly · sinister · strain · suffering · threatening · trauma · trial · tribulation · trouble · under the weather · unfavourable · unfavourably · unfortunate · unfortunately · unfriendly · unhealthy · unkind · unlawfully · unlucky · unpleasantness · unpromising · unpropitious · unscrupulously · unwell · unwholesome · valetudinarian · vile · weak · woe · worry

Translation of «ills» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ILLS

Find out the translation of ills to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ills from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ills» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

弊病
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

males
570 millions of speakers

English

ills
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बीमारियों
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العلل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

беды
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

males
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দুর্ভাগ্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

maux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penyakit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Übel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

病気
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ilai
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

những tệ nạn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நோய்களை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बिले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ills
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mali
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bolączki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

біди
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bolile
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δεινά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

euwels
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ills
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ills
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ills

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ILLS»

The term «ills» is quite widely used and occupies the 37.364 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of ills
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ILLS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ills» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ills» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ills

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10 QUOTES WITH «ILLS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ills.
1
Patch Adams
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
2
Antiphanes
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
3
Marie Antoinette
No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.
4
Ray Stannard Baker
In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.
5
Maeve Binchy
If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
6
William Jennings Bryan
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
7
P. Chidambaram
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
8
Lydia M. Child
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
9
Albert Claude
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
10
Abraham Cowley
Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ILLS»

Discover the use of ills in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ills and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness
The book includes chapters on the history of psychiatry in Africa, on the treatment of venereal diseases, on the memoirs of European 'Jungle Doctors', and on mission medicine.
Megan Vaughan, 2013
2
Cure of All Ills
Mary Stewart Relfe surveys the history of American revivals, providing interesting anecdotes and promoting religious revival as the cure for all of America's current social ills.
Mary S. Relfe, 1988
3
Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in the ...
The book will interest historians of medicine, practicing psychiatrists, and everyone who knows or has seen what it's like to be in mental distress.
Joel T. Braslow, 1997
4
Culpeper's Complete Herbal: A Book of Natural Remedies for ...
From Amara Dulcis to Yarrow, All-Heal to Viper's Bugloss, Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged offers remedies for all ills known to Seventeenth century society.
Nicholas Culpeper, 1995
5
The Ills of Aid: An Analysis of Third World Development Policies
And throughout the book, Reusse demonstrates the principal systemic flaw: unrealistic interventionist paradigms - that is, Western notions of Third World realities that misidentify needs for intervention - at the root of most inappropriate ...
Eberhard Reusse, 2002
6
Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills
This book is the sequel to Paul Nahin's An Imaginary Tale: The Story of I [the square root of -1], which chronicled the events leading up to the discovery of one of mathematics' most elusive numbers, the square root of minus one.
Paul J. Nahin, 2011
7
Urban Ills: Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban ...
Urban Ills: Twenty First Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts is a collection of original research focused on critical challenges and dilemmas to living in cities.
Carol Camp Yeakey, Vetta Sanders Thompson, Anjanette Wells, 2013
8
AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures
To understand why it took France so long to react to the AIDS crisis, AIDS in French Culture analyzes the intersections of three discourses—the literary, the medical, and the political—and traces the origin of French attitudes about ...
David Caron, 2001
9
The Hot and the Cold: Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico
Examines indigenous worldview and myth to challenge the prevailing notion that hot-cold reasoning of health and illness in Latin America is a product of the Hippocratic humoral doctrine brought by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century.
Jacques M. Chevalier, Andrés Sánchez Bain, 2003
10
Portrait and Biographical Album of Morgan and Scott ...
Brief biographies of governors and other representative citizens in Morgan and Scott Counties, Illinois.
‎1889

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ILLS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ills is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Rep. Rosa DeLauro: A flawed attempt to cure our country's ills
Last week, the House of Representatives voted on the Twenty-First Century Cures bill, legislation aimed at promoting biomedical innovation at ... «New Haven Register, Jul 15»
2
River Front Festival could help cure Linden's social, economic ills
As Linden seeks to wean itself off what appears to have become a permanent image as a “mining community,” next weekend's River Front ... «Stabroek News, Jul 15»
3
Supplicates to heal the nation's ills, Oshiomhole urges muslims …
Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole has tasked muslims to continue to make supplication to Allah to heal the nation of all its ills and reward ... «BusinessDay, Jul 15»
4
For education's ills, a dose of self-awareness | California Lutheran …
For education's ills, a dose of self-awareness. Beginning with 2015's graduates, master's degree students in counselor education are all ... «California Lutheran University, Jul 15»
5
Beijing to Move City Admin to Reduce "Urban Ills" - CRIENGLISH.com
... with neighboring Tianjin and the province of Hebei. It's part of the ongoing effort to ease the city's "urban ills" and make the city more liveable. «CRIENGLISH.com, Jul 15»
6
California Enacts "Fix-It" Legislation To Cure Ills Of Paid Sick Leave …
California's paid sick leave law went into effect on July 1, 2015, but soon found itself in the emergency room with many unpleasant side effects. «Mondaq News Alerts, Jul 15»
7
Letter: Don't blame fossil fuels for all ills
In her letter July 2, Kelley Schweissing misses the mark on fossil fuels by citing the poor of Argentina. The facts are that as fossil fuel use ... «The Coloradoan, Jul 15»
8
As Part of Regional Integration Easing 'Urban Ills,' Beijing to Transfer …
Beijing eyes to transfer some of its city administration to ease urban ills such as traffic congestion and air pollution. (Photo : Reuters). As part of ... «Yibada, Jul 15»
9
Bishan's take: Choose between protecting IPL and fixing its ills
New Delhi: "Justice (retd) Rajendra Mal Lodha and his committee have come across as a breath of fresh air. But, only just..." Those were the ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Jul 15»
10
For education's ills, a dose of self-awareness
The counselor education faculty includes, from left, Cynthia Jew, Ph.D., Heidi Coronado, M.S. '04, Ph.D., Angela (Namba '02) Rowley, M.S. '05, ... «California Lutheran University, Jul 15»

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