out of sorts

1 I'm feeling out of sorts: UNWELL, ill, poorly, sick, queasy, nauseous, peaky, run down, below par; Brit. off colour; informal under the weather, funny, rough, lousy, rotten, awful; Brit. informal off, ropy; Scottish informal wabbit, peely-wally; Austral./NZ informal crook; dated seedy.

2 I've been out of sorts and I'd like a chat: UNHAPPY, sad, miserable, down, depressed, melancholy, gloomy, glum, dispirited, despondent, forlorn, woebegone, low, in the doldrums; informal blue, fed up, down in the dumps, down in the mouth.

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phrasal

: out of temper : vexed, ill, disturbed

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out of sorts see under ↑sort

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out of sorts

1. Out of order, slightly unwell

2. With some sorts of type in the fount exhausted (printing)

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out of sorts phrase

slightly ill, upset, or unhappy

I’ve been feeling a bit out of sorts lately.

Thesaurus: feeling and being unhealthy or ill_synonym

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slightly unwell

feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts

■ in low spirits; irritable

the trying events of the day had put him out of sorts

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out of sorts

1 : somewhat angry or unhappy

My boss is (feeling) out of sorts today.

2 : somewhat ill

I don't know what's wrong with me, but I'm feeling a little out of sorts.

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out of ˈsorts idiom

(especially BrE) ill/sick or upset

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She was tired and out of sorts by the time she arrived home.

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Are you feeling all right? You look a bit out of sorts.

Main entry: ↑sort_idiom