Synonyms of unwell

unwell

adjective

ˌən-ˈwel 

as in sick

temporarily suffering from a disorder of the body

she missed work because she was unwell

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sick
• poorly
• ill
• bad
• down
• indisposed
• dizzy
• ailing
• unhealthy
• weak
• shaky
• peaky
• unsound
• out of sorts
• sickened
• under the weather
• troubled
• peaked
• punk
• sickish
• symptomatic
• fragile
• disabled
• run-down
• nauseous
• queasy
• feeble
• seasick
• sickly
• frail
• diseased
• nauseated
• squeamish
• woozy
• lousy
• achy
• infirm
• debilitated
• weakly
• feverish
• incapacitated
• seedy
• afflicted
• disordered
• cruddy
• airsick
• invalid
• hypochondriacal
• decrepit
• carsick
• qualmish
• light-headed
• hypochondriac

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• well
• whole
• healthy
• sound
• wholesome
• healthful
• hale
• better
• cured
• conditioned
• fit
• able-bodied
• recovering
• improved
• strong
• tough
• hardy
• mending
• well-conditioned
• robust
• lusty
• convalescing
• hearty
• stalwart
• recuperating
• rugged
• thriving
• flourishing
• bouncing
• chipper
• blooming
• flush
• rehabilitated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of unwell

Sadly, as the shed neared completion, Scott was too unwell to visit and passed away in November 2024. — New Atlas, 3 Aug. 2026

Behind the polished facades, roughly nine out of ten were privately exhausted, unwell, or both, and had normalized that reality as an occupational hazard. — Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

At this point in the episode, we’ve been treated to another major revelation that Juliette Lewis’s wild card of a character is his mentally unwell sister, Crystal, and Cady is trying to track her down. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 10 July 2026

Focusing scrutiny on the DNA of people who were unwell—a reasonable choice when genetic analysis tools were neither cheap nor fast—might have introduced a bias toward believing that the mutations were always extremely harmful. — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026