OUT OF SORTS

Definition: OUT OF SORTS

OUT OF SORTS

1. (Print.), with some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence, colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Dejection

Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen.

Disease

Adjective: diseased; ailing; Verb: ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather; valetudinary.

Disorder

Immethodical; unsymmetric, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged; (see arrange; ); confused; deranged; topsy-turvy; (inverted); shapeless; disjointed, out of joint.

Sullenness

Grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish; in the sulks; Noun: out of sorts; scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy.

Crosswords: OUT OF SORTS

Expression using "OUT OF SORTS": be out of sorts. Additional references.

Albanian

nuk jam në terezi (be out of sorts). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منحرف المزاج. (various references)

Bulgarian 

неразположен (averse, chippy, indisposed, mean, off color, off colour, poorly, queer, seedy, squeamish, under the weather, unwell), без настроение (liverish, livery, off color, off colour, out of humor, out of humour, petulant, spiritless, washed out). (various references)

Chinese 

不適 (indisposed, unwell), 不爽 (accurate, in a bad mood, not well, without discrepancy). (various references)

Czech

rozladìný (disgruntled, out of tune), necítící se dobře. (various references)

Finnish

tunsin olevani alassa (I felt bad, I felt out of sorts). (various references)

French

patraque, pas dans son assiette. (various references)

Hebrew 

מצוברח (grumpy). (various references)

Hungarian

nem érzi jól magát (be below par, be unwell, to be out of sorts, to be under the weather, to be unwell, to feel below par, to feel out of sorts, to feel unfit). (various references)

Indonesian

mencak-mencak (be out of sorts, move convulsively). (various references)

Pig Latin

outay ofay ortssay

Romanian

nu-i fi boii acasã (be out of sorts, fall below par, have the pip, not to feel quite up to the mark), nu fi în apele sale (be out of sorts). (various references)

Russian 

не в духе (in the doldrums, mumpish, out of humour). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mrzovoljno (curmudgeonly, sort: out of sorts, temper: in a bad temper). (various references)

Spanish

sentirse incómodo (be out of sorts), estar indispuesto (be out of sorts). (various references)

Turkish

rahatsız (ailing, bad, comfortless, constrained, diseased, disturbed, ill, in bad health, incommodious, indisposed, poorly, queer, seedy, sick, troubled, uncomfortable, uneasy, unrestful, unwell, worrisome), neşesiz (cheerless, cheerlessly, dejected, dispirited, ditch water, ditchwater, down, joyless, mirthless), keyifsiz (ailing, blue, cheerless, dejected, dispirited, doleful, down, humorless, humourless, in the doldrums, indisposed, mean, off color, off colour, out of humor, out of humour, poor spirited, poorly, queer, seedy, sick, under the weather, unwell), huzursuz (anxious, ill at ease, on pins and needles, peaceless, restive, restless, sleepless, tremulous, uneasy, unrestful, unsettled, worrisome), huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: outfoots, outroots.

-3 letters: outfoot, outroot.

-4 letters: frosts, roosts, rousts, stours, stouts, struts, sturts, torous, torsos, trouts, trusts, tussor, tutors.

-5 letters: foots, forts, fours, frost, ottos, ousts, roofs, roost, roots, rotos, roust, routs, rusts, softs, soots, sorts, sorus, sours, stour, stout, strut, sturt, surfs, tofts, tofus, toots, toros, torot, torso, torts, torus, tours, touts, trots.