ill at ease

Questions about ill at ease

What is another word for ill at ease?

It depends which ill at ease you mean. In the sense “socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner”, the synonyms are awkward, uneasy. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of ill at ease?

WordNet records no antonym for ill at ease. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for ill at ease come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of ill at ease

• Full entry for ill at easeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for ill at easeWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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