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Definition: UNDER THE WEATHER |
UNDER THE WEATHER1. Ill; also, financially embarrassed. [Colloq. U. S.] --Bartlett. |
| Domain | Definition |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Under the Weather. "Are you well?" "No; I have been quite under the weather." Substitute sick or ill, for the colloquial expression under the weather. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Sniffling; cold; sick; sickly; under the weather. | |
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Expression using "UNDER THE WEATHER": be under the weather. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "UNDER THE WEATHER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | jam pa qejf (be under the weather). (various references) | |
Arabic | متوعك صحيا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неразположен (averse, chippy, indisposed, mean, off color, off colour, out of sorts, poorly, queer, seedy, squeamish, unwell), махмурлия (dopey, dopy, rocky), потиснат (heavy, melancholy, muffled, oppressed, pent, sullen). (various references) | |
Chinese | 不快 (be displeased, be in low spirits, be indisposed, be out of sorts, be unhappy, feel under the weather). (various references) | |
French | être mal fichu (be under the weather). (various references) | |
Greek | αδιάθετος (off colour, unwell). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לא בקו "בריאות (below par, indisposed, off color, unwell). (various references) | |
Hungarian | van benne egy kis nyomás (have a drop in one's eye, to be under the weather). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erunday ethay eatherway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sentindo-se mal, baqueado. (various references) | |
Russian | нездоровый (ailing, dicky, diseased, doughy, indisposed, insalubrious, noisome, poorly, seedy, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsound, unwell, unwholesome). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | u novčanoj neprilici (weather: under the weather). (various references) | |
Spanish | indispuesto (dog-sick, indisposed, off color, off colour, queer, unfit, unwell), bajo las aguas. (various references) | |
Swedish | krasslig (ailing, bad, cachectic, ill, off color, off colour, seedy, unwell), bakfull (crapulous, hung over). (various references) | |
Turkish | sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, canned, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fried, groggy, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit, lit up, loaded, nappy, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, queer, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stinko, stoned, tanked, tight, under the influence, under the influence of drink, well oiled, winy, woozy, zonked), 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, out of sorts, poor spirited, poorly, queer, seedy, sick, unwell), kafası dumanlı (fuddled, hazy, in the wind, shot, sloshed, tipsy), hasta (ailing, buff, case, client, diseased, fan, fanatical, ill, in bad health, invalid, patient, poorly, sick, sufferer, unsound, unwell, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weakly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-e-h-h-n-r-r-t-t-u-w" | |
-4 letters: truehearted, unweathered. | |
-5 letters: enwreathed, headhunter, thereunder, threatened, threatener, underwater, untethered, unwreathed. | |
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