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ill at ease

ill at ease adjective: anxious; unsure; uneasy.

Adjective

ill at ease (comparative more ill at ease, superlative most ill at ease)

  1. Anxious; unsure; uneasy.
  2. Uncomfortable.

ill at ease meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

ill at ease in Tamil

மன உலைவு

ill at ease in Malayalam

uncomfortable, awkward, uneasy
അസുഖകരമായ, അസ്വസ്ഥമായ, സ്വൈരമില്ലാത്ത, വിലക്ഷണം, വല്ലാത്ത, ഉല്‍ക്കണ്ഠയനുഭവപ്പെടുന്ന

Forms of ill at ease

comparativemore ill at ease
superlativemost ill at ease

Origin of ill at ease

Compare to malaise, a similar formation from French.

Questions about ill at ease

What does ill at ease mean?
Ill at ease means anxious; unsure; uneasy.
What is ill at ease in Tamil?
Ill at ease in Tamil is மன உலைவு. See Ill at ease meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ill at ease?
Ill at ease is an adjective.

Words near ill at ease in the dictionary

  1. Ilkhanid
  2. ilkhans
  3. Ilkley
  4. ilks
  5. ill
  6. ill at ease
  7. ill behaved
  8. ill blood
  9. ill doers are ill deemers
  10. ill effect
  11. ill effects

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ill at ease (page history and authors); ill at ease (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ill at ease (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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