under the weather

1. 1.

   somewhat ill or prone to illness

   “my poor ailing grandmother”

   “feeling a bit indisposed today”

   “you look a little peaked”

   “feeling poorly”

   “a sickly child”

   “is unwell and can't come to work”

   Synonymsailingindisposedpeakedpoorlysicklyunwellseedy

   Similarill

Questions about under the weather

What does under the weather mean?

under the weather means "somewhat ill or prone to illness".

What is another word for under the weather?

Close synonyms include ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is under the weather a common word?

under the weather is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.