Crossword clues for unwell
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unwell \Un*well"\, a.
Not well; indisposed; not in good health; somewhat ill; ailing.
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(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 use among all who speak the English language.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
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: ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, under the weather]
Wikipedia
''For the concept related to the English word unwell, see Disease.
"Unwell" is a song by American alternative rock group Matchbox Twenty. It was released in April 2003 as the second single from their third album, More Than You Think You Are. It was written by Matchbox Twenty lead singer Rob Thomas. It was very successful on the radio, spending 18 weeks at the top of the US Billboard Adult Top 40 chart, two weeks atop the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, as well as reaching No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
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.