under the weather

Questions about under the weather

What is another word for under the weather?

It depends which under the weather you mean. In the sense “somewhat ill or prone to illness”, the synonyms are ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, seedy. Across all 1 sense there are 7 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 under the weather?

WordNet records no antonym for under the weather. 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 under the weather 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 under the weather

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