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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNWELL', a. Not well; indisposed; not in good health. [It expresses less than sick.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century 1. being in poor health ; ailing, sick 2. undergoing menstruation

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 not in good health; (somewhat) ill. 2 indisposed.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unwell Un*well", a. 1. Not well; indisposed; not in good health; somewhat ill; ailing. 2. (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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you are unwell, you are ill. He had been riding in Hyde Park, but felt unwell as he was being driven back to his office late this afternoon. ADJ: v-link ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Ill, ailing, sick, indisposed, out of sorts, out of health, on the sick list, laid on the shelf, under the weather.

Moby Thesaurus

ailing, bad, below par, critically ill, donsie, down, faint, faintish, feeble, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible, frail, ill, in danger, indisposed, infirm, laid low, low, mean, mortally ill, not quite right, off-color, offish, out of sorts, poorly, qualmish, queasy, rocky, seedy, shaky, sick, sick unto death, sickish, sickly, squeamish, taken ill, under the weather, weakly, wobbly