Usually means: Uncomfortable, anxious, or uneasy feeling.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word ill at ease:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. ill at ease: Merriam-Webster
  2. ill at ease: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ill at ease: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ill at ease: Vocabulary.com
  5. ill at ease: Wordnik
  6. ill at ease: Wiktionary
  7. Ill at ease, ill at ease: Dictionary.com
  8. Ill at Ease (The Mark of Cain album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. ill at ease: FreeDictionary.org
  10. ill at ease: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. ill-at-ease, ill at ease: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. ill at ease: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. ill at ease: Legal dictionary

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  1. ill at ease: Idioms

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  1. Ill at ease: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ill at ease)

▸ adjective:  Anxious; unsure; uneasy.
▸ adjective:  Uncomfortable.

Similar:
uneasy, uncomfortable, awkward, comfortable, relaxed, secure, otiant, unworried, angstless, serene, more...

Opposite:
comfortable, relaxed, calm, composed

Phrases:
the trait of seeming ill at ease, more...

Adjectives:
uneasy, uncomfortable, infatigable, mislike, comfortless, disconsolate, disquiet, inconsolate, uncomfy, discomfortable

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Similar:
uneasy, uncomfortable, awkward, comfortable, relaxed, secure, otiant, unworried, angstless, serene, more...

Opposite:
comfortable, relaxed, calm, composed

Phrases:
the trait of seeming ill at ease, more...

Adjectives:
uneasy, uncomfortable, infatigable, mislike, comfortless, disconsolate, disquiet, inconsolate, uncomfy, discomfortable



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