unwell

Speech parts

1. unwell - Adjective

2. unwell - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not well; indisposed; not in good health; somewhat ill; ailing.

Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

poorly peaked ailing sickly seedy indisposed under the weather dicky peaky down taken rotten queer affected bad
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Antonyms

hardy hale well good sound strong
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Phrases with the word

feel unwell become unwell be unwell

Examples

In an age where public health has never been better provided for, and medical men enjoy a respect formerly reserved for the aristocracy and the clergy, millions of people are unwell, or merely feel unwell, or are in dread lest at some future time they may become unwell. Robertson Davies

I would write your Excellency a more particular account of the battle and retreat, but I imagine General Sullivan and Colonel Laurens have done it already, and I am myself very much unwell. I have had no sleep for three nights and days, being severely afflicted with the asthma. Nathanael Greene

Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in my painting, but what I cannot do without, unwell as I am, is something greater than myself, which is my life, the power to create. Vincent van Gogh

It is evident that Qaddafi is mentally unwell. Like Richard III, he has barricaded himself within lies. Hisham Matar

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. Renata Adler

Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you. Mark Vonnegut

Close letter words and terms

unweldable unwelded unweldy unwellness unwelted unwemmed