Illest vs Willest - What's the difference?

illest | willest |

As an adjective illest

is superlative of ill.

As a verb willest is

archaic second-person singular of will.

illest

English

Adjective

(head)

(ill)

Anagrams

ill

English

Adjective

(en-adj)

(label) Evil; wicked (of people).

* (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)

St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it.

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

* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 2:

‘Go bring her. It is ill to keep a lady waiting.’

Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.

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

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Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.

Having an urge to vomit.

(label) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill', ''comparative'' '''iller''', ''superlative'' ' illest .]

* 1994 , Biggie Smalls, The What

Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?"

(label) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be .

Usage notes

* The comparative forms iller and illest are used in American English, but less than one fourth as frequently as the "more" and "most" forms.

Synonyms

* (suffering from a disease''): diseased, poorly (''UK ), sick, under the weather (informal), unwell * (having an urge to vomit ): disgusted, nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickened * (bad ): bad, mal- * (in hip-hop slang: sublime ): dope * See also

Antonyms

* (suffering from a disease ): fine, hale, healthy, in good health, well * (having an urge to vomit ): * (bad ): good * (in hip-hop slang: sublime ): wack

Derived terms

* be ill * fall ill * ill at ease * ill effects * illness * ill wind * lie ill in one's mouth * mentally ill * be taken ill

References

Adverb

(en adverb)

Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.

In both groups, however, we find copious and intricate speciation so that, often, species limits are narrow and ill defined.

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 541:

His inflexibility and blindness ill become a leader, for a leader must temper justice with mercy.

* 2006 , Julia Borossa (translator), Monique Canto-Sperber (quoted author), in (quoting author), ''Dead End Feminism , Polity, ISBN 9780745633800, page 40:

Is it because this supposes an undifferentiated violence towards others and oneself that I could ill imagine in a woman?

Synonyms

* illy

Antonyms

* well

Derived terms

* bode ill * ill afford * ill-formed * ill-gotten * ill-thought-out

Noun

(en noun)

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

* (William Shakespeare)

That makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of.

* , chapter=4

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}

Harm or injury.

Evil; moral wrongfulness.

* (John Dryden)

Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, / Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill .

A physical ailment; an illness.

Unfavorable remarks or opinions.

(US, slang) PCP, phencyclidine.

Derived terms

* for good or ill

References

* Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.

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willest

English

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (will)

will

English

(wikipedia will)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wille, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch wil, German Wille, Swedish vilja. The verb is not always distinguishable from Etymology 2, below.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)

He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.

Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason.

One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.

Eventually I submitted to my parents' will .

(archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:

I auow by this most sacred head / Of my deare foster child, to ease thy griefe, / And win thy will [...].

The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.

Most creatures have a will to live.

* {{quote-news

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A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.

* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne

, title=Well Tackled! , chapter=1 citation , passage=“Uncle Barnaby was always father and mother to me,” Benson broke in; then after a pause his mind flew off at a tangent. “Is old Hannah all right—in the will , I mean?”}}

Usage notes

* Can be said to be strong, free, independent, etc.

Derived terms

* at will * wilful, willful * willpower * with a will

Verb

(archaic) To wish, desire.

* Bible, Matthew viii. 2

And behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord if thou wilt , thou canst make me clean.

(intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.

To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).

All the fans were willing their team to win the game.

* Shakespeare

They willed me say so, madam.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Send for music, / And will the cooks to use their best of cunning / To please the palate.

To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).

He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.

Synonyms

* (bequeath) bequeath, leave

Etymology 2

From (etyl) willen, wullen, wollen, from (etyl) willan, .It is not always distinguishable from Etymology 1, above.

Verb

(rare) To wish, desire (something).

* 1944 , FJ Sheed, translating St. Augustine, Confessions :

Grant what Thou dost command, and command what Thou wilt .

(rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XXVI:

the disciples cam to Jesus sayinge unto hym: where wylt thou that we prepare for the to eate the ester lambe?

see God's goodwill toward men, hear how generally his grace is proposed, to him, and him, and them, each man in particular, and to all. 1 Tim. ii. 4. "God will that all men be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth."

(auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 28:

As young men will , I did my best to appear suave and sophisticated.

* 2009 , Stephen Bayley, The Telegraph , 24 Sep 09:

How telling is it that many women will volunteer for temporary disablement by wearing high heeled shoes that hobble them?

* 2011 , "Connubial bliss in America", The Economist :

So far neither side has scored a decisive victory, though each will occasionally claim one.

(auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive).

(auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, formerly with some implication of volition when used in first person. Compare (shall).

* (rfdate) William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Or What You Will , act IV:

Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink and paper : as I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to thee for’t.

* (rfdate) Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo , chapter LXXIII:

“I will' rejoin you, and we ' will fly ; but from this moment until then, let us not tempt Providence, Morrel; let us not see each other; it is a miracle, it is a providence that we have not been discovered; if we were surprised, if it were known that we met thus, we should have no further resource.”

(auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.

Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.

Usage notes

* Historically, will' was used in the simple future sense only in the second and third person, while ''shall'' was used in the first person. Today, that distinction is almost entirely lost, and the verb takes the same form in all persons and both numbers. Similarly, in the intent sense, '''will was historically used with the second and third person, while ''shall was reserved for the first person. * Historically, the present tense is will' and the past tense is '''would'''. Early Modern English had a past participle ' would which is now obsolete. :: Malory, ‘Many tymes he myghte haue had her and he had wold’ ; John Done, ‘If hee had would, hee might easily [...] occupied the Monarchy.’ * Formerly, will could be used elliptically for "will go" — e.g. "I'll to her lodgings" (Marlowe). * See the usage note at shall . * The present participle does not apply to the uses of will as an auxiliary verb.

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