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unwell

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ʌnˈwɛl//

Not in good health; not feeling well; somewhat ill

adjective

  1. 1

    Not in good health; not feeling well; somewhat ill

    feel unwell

  2. 2

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

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English well English unwell From un- + well.

Forms

comparative
more unwell
superlative
most unwell
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).