[ adj ] somewhat ill or prone to illness <adj.all> my poor ailing grandmotherfeeling a bit indisposed today you look a little peaked feeling poorly a sickly child is unwell and can't come to work
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.
So if the latter are offered a new benefit when they are unwell that is more generous than unemployment benefit or the state pension, some who previously chose to work despite chronic illness or disability will no longer do so.
Betty Evans said her father-in-law died early Sunday in a chair beside his bed at his cottage in Forest-fach, near Swansea, Wales, after feeling "a little unwell" for a few days.
An announcement of the death, issued by the church's press office in both Belfast and Dublin, said O'Fiaich had appeared unwell to doctors accompanying the group of 600 pilgrims from his seat at Armagh in Northern Ireland.