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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unwell \Un*well"\, adjective
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unwell
adjective
1: undergoing menstruation [syn: {menstruating}]
2: 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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "unwell": 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
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