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unwell
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. undergoing menstruation [syn: menstruating ] somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Not well; indisposed; not in good health; somewhat ill; ailing. 2 (context dated euphemism English) Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Mrs Hedges is unwell today, so her class will be taken by Mr Collier. ▪ Tom had been unwell for some time but had refused to see a doctor. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ By lunchtime she was distinctly unwell and the school ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unwell \Un*well"\, a. Not well; indisposed; not in good health; somewhat ill; ailing. (Med.) Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant. Note: This word was formerly regarded as an Americanism, but is now in common ...
Usage examples of unwell.
By day you will souse and bat our smelling underclothes also when we ladies are unwell, and swab out our latrines with dress pinned up and a dishclout tied to your tail.
Most of these people were not even mentally unwell, but their tendency to choke at dinner time meant that the piece of medical equipment he had used most was not a stethoscope or a thermometer but a probang, an instrument for pushing stuck food down the oesophagus, something he had been instructed to carry at all times.
Tell him I am unwell, Tetty had urged, when word was sent that he would come.
Police helicopters flackered noisily overhead, warning drivers who felt unwell to try and pull off the highway.
I have found Mrs Lopez unwell, and she has begged me to ask you to excuse her.
Her son, a little unwell, traveled in another litter with his nursemaids, and a third one held King Ptolemy XIV, her thirteen-year-old husband.
In its quest to rid the body of pathogens, the immune system sometimes destroys cells or damages critical tissues, so often when you are unwell what you are feeling is not the pathogens but your own immune responses.
The night passed off without my eyes being visited by sleep, and feeling weak and low I thought I would wait to see what ailed me, and refused to have my dinner, sending word that I was still very unwell.
As soon as the shower had passed over we drew out our canoes, corked, repaired, and loaded them I still feel myself somewhat unwell with the dysentery, but determined to set out in the morning up the south fork or Missouri, leaving Captain Clark to complete the deposit and follow me by water with the party.
Not to be doing something is, to her, to be either seriously unwell or bone idle, which ranks well below crime.
Oh, why must he come back just when I am so hagged and miserably unwell?
She was unwell, and she had been depressed by the death of Airshipman Blier, killed in the fall from Volkenreiter as the airship approached the mooring mast last evening.
Wickfield is unwell in bed, sir, of a rheumatic fever,' he returned.
And continued to work at arm's length even when he was old and unwell.