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UNWELL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Somewhat ill or prone to illness
Example:
is unwell and can't come to work
Synonyms:
ailing; indisposed; peaked; poorly; seedy; sickly; under the weather; unwell
Classified under:
Similar:
ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)
Derivation:
unwellness (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)
Context examples:
"I am sorry to find you unwell," replied Anne.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
We agreed, without any more consultation, that we would both go, and that Dora was a little Impostor, who feigned to be rather unwell, because she liked to be petted.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Lady Middleton, though in the middle of a rubber, on being informed that Marianne was unwell, was too polite to object for a moment to her wish of going away, and making over her cards to a friend, they departed as soon the carriage could be found.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But however, she is so far from well, that her kind friends the Campbells think she had better come home, and try an air that always agrees with her; and they have no doubt that three or four months at Highbury will entirely cure her—and it is certainly a great deal better that she should come here, than go to Ireland, if she is unwell.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Breakfast was scarcely over when a servant from Netherfield brought the following note for Elizabeth: MY DEAREST LIZZY, I find myself very unwell this morning, which, I suppose, is to be imputed to my getting wet through yesterday.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The two families were so continually meeting, so much in the habit of running in and out of each other's house at all hours, that it was rather a surprise to her to find Mary alone; but being alone, her being unwell and out of spirits was almost a matter of course.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
“Mr. Wickfield is unwell in bed, sir, of a rheumatic fever,” he returned; “but Miss Wickfield, I have no doubt, will be happy to see old friends. Will you walk in, sir?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was not the first time of her feeling the same kind of conviction; for, more than once before, beginning with the observation of your sister looks unwell to-day, or your sister seems out of spirits, he had appeared on the point, either of disclosing, or of inquiring, something particular about her.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Jane desired me to do it, so I always do: and so I began to-day with my usual caution; but no sooner did I come to the mention of her being unwell, than I burst out, quite frightened, with 'Bless me! poor Jane is ill!'—which my mother, being on the watch, heard distinctly, and was sadly alarmed at.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself at Deal, when the Admiral (Captain Croft then) was in the North Seas.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
