Socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner:
— Ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know.
synonyms: awkward, uneasy.
Roget 828:
in pain,
in a state of pain,
full of pain
etc.
n.;
suffering
etc.
v.;
pained,
afflicted,
worried,
displeased
etc.
830;
aching,
griped,
sore
etc.
(physical pain)
378;
on the rack,
in limbo;
between hawk and buzzard.
uncomfortable,
uneasy;
ill at ease;
in a taking,
in a way;
disturbed;
discontented
etc.
832;
out of humor
etc.
901.1;
weary
etc.
841.
heavy laden,
stricken,
crushed,
a prey to,
victimized,
ill-used.
unfortunate
etc.
(hapless)
735;
to be pitied,
doomed,
devoted,
accursed,
undone,
lost,
stranded;
fey.
unhappy,
infelicitous,
poor,
wretched,
miserable,
woe-begone;
cheerless
etc.
(dejected)
837;
careworn.
concerned,
sorry;
sorrowing,
sorrowful;
cut up,
chagrined,
horrified,
horror-stricken;
in grief,
plunged in grief,
a prey to grief
etc.
n.;
in tears
etc.
(lamenting)
839;
steeped to the lips in misery;
heart-stricken,
heart-broken,
heart-scalded;
broken-hearted;
in despair
etc.
859.
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Roget 837:
cheerless,
joyless,
spiritless;
uncheerful,
uncheery†;
unlively†;
unhappy
etc.
828;
melancholy,
dismal,
somber,
dark,
gloomy,
triste [Fr.],
clouded,
murky,
lowering,
frowning,
lugubrious,
funereal,
mournful,
lamentable,
dreadful.
dreary,
flat;
dull,
dull as a beetle,
dull as ditchwater†;
depressing
etc.
v..
melancholy as a gib cat;"
oppressed with melancholy,
a prey to melancholy;
downcast,
downhearted;
down in the mouth,
down in one's luck;
heavy-hearted;
in the dumps,
down in the dumps,
in the suds,
in the sulks,
in the doldrums;
in doleful dumps,
in bad humor;
sullen;
mumpish†,
dumpish,
mopish†,
moping;
moody,
glum;
sulky
etc.
(discontented)
832;
out of sorts,
out of humor,
out of heart,
out of spirits;
ill at ease,
low spirited,
in low spirits,
a cup too low;
weary
etc.
841;
discouraged,
disheartened;
desponding;
chapfallen†,
chopfallen†,
jaw fallen,
crest fallen.
sad,
pensive,
penseroso [It],
tristful†;
dolesome†,
doleful;
woebegone;
lacrymose,
lachrymose,
in tears,
melancholic,
hypped†,
hypochondriacal,
bilious,
jaundiced,
atrabilious†,
saturnine,
splenetic;
lackadaisical.
serious,
sedate,
staid,
stayed;
grave as a judge,
grave as an undertaker,
grave as a mustard pot;
sober,
sober as a judge,
solemn,
demure;
grim;
grim-faced,
grim-visaged;
rueful,
wan,
long-faced.
disconsolate;
unconsolable,
inconsolable;
forlorn,
comfortless,
desolate,
desole [Fr.],
sick at heart;
soul sick,
heart sick;
au desespoir [Fr.];
in despair
etc.
859;
lost.
overcome;
broken down,
borne down,
bowed down;
heartstricken
etc.
(mental suffering)
828†;
cut up,
dashed,
sunk;
unnerved,
unmanned;
down fallen,
downtrodden;
broken-hearted;
careworn.
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