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| Main Entry: |
out of sorts
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad humor |
| Synonyms: | below par, out of humor, under the weather, unwell |
| Main Entry: | disagreeable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad-tempered, irritable |
| Synonyms: | bellicose, brusque, cantankerous, churlish, contentious, contrary, cross, difficult, disobliging, disputatious, eristic, grouchy, ill-natured, nasty, obnoxious, offensive, out of sorts, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, rude, snappy, surly, ugly, unfriendly, ungracious, unlikable, unpleasant, uptight, waspish, whiny |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, friendly, happy, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | fretful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable |
| Synonyms: | captious, carping, caviling, complaining, contrary, crabby, cranky*, critical, cross, crotchety, edgy, faultfinding, fractious, huffy, mean, ornery*, out of sorts, peevish, perverse, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappish, splenetic, testy, touchy, uneasy, worried, wreck* |
| Antonyms: | calm, cheered, easy-going, happy, joyous, laid-back, pleased, relaxed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sick |
| Synonyms: | a wreck, afflicted, ailing, below par, bummed, diseased, down, down with, feeling awful, feeling rotten, feeling terrible, got the bug, indisposed, infirm, laid low, off one's feet, on sick list, out of sorts, peaked, poorly, queasy, rotten, run-down, running temperature, sick as a dog, under the weather, unhealthy, unwell, woozy |
| Antonyms: | good, healthy, sound, strong, well |
| Main Entry: | moody |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby, temperamental |
| Synonyms: | angry, cantankerous, capricious, changeable, crabbed, crestfallen, cross, dismal, doleful, dour, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, erratic, fickle, fitful, flighty, frowning, gloomy, glum, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impulsive, in a huff, in the doldrums, introspective, irascible, irritable, lugubrious, melancholy, mercurial, miserable, moping, morose, offended, out of sorts, pensive, petulant, piqued, sad, saturnine, short-tempered, splenetic, sulky, sullen, testy, touchy |
| Antonyms: | balanced, cheerful, happy, overjoyed |
| Main Entry: | plaintive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pathetic, woebegone |
| Synonyms: | beefing, bellyaching, cantankerous, crabby, cranky*, disconsolate, doleful, grief-stricken, grievous, grousing, grumpy*, heartrending, lamenting, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, out of sorts, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, rueful, sad, saddening, sorrowful, wailing, wistful, woeful |
| Notes: | a plaintiff is the party who brings an action in a court of law, while plaintive means expressive of sorrow or melancholy |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poorly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not well |
| Synonyms: | ailing, below par, failing, ill, indisposed, low, mean, out of sorts, rotten*, sick, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
| Antonyms: | healthy, well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy, depressed |
| Synonyms: | bereaved, bitter, blue*, cheerless, dejected, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, down, down in dumps, down in mouth, downcast, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieved, heartbroken, heartsick, heavyhearted, hurting, in doldrums, in grief, in the dumps, languishing, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, morbid, morose, mournful, out of sorts, pensive, pessimistic, sick at heart, somber, sorrowful, sorry, troubled, weeping, wistful, woebegone |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, glad, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sullen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brooding, upset |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, cheerless, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cross, cynical, dismal, dour, dull, fretful, frowning, gloomy, glowering, glum, gruff, grumpy*, heavy, hostile, ill-humored, inert, irritable, malevolent, malicious, malign, mean, moody, morose, obstinate, ornery*, out of sorts, peevish, perverse, pessimistic, petulant, pouting, pouty, querulous, saturnine, silent, somber, sour, sourpussed, stubborn, sulking, sulky, surly, tenebrific, tenebrous, ugly, unsociable, uptight* |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, grinning, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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