Local English word record

unwell

adjective · 1 sense

somewhat ill or prone to illness

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Examples

  • my poor ailing grandmother
  • feeling a bit indisposed today
  • you look a little peaked
  • feeling poorly
  • a sickly child

Word relationships

Synonyms

ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, under the weather, seedy

Source and method

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Princeton WordNet 3.0