ill at ease

ill at ease
adjective
socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
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awkward and reserved at parties

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ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know

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was always uneasy with strangers

• Syn: ↑awkward, ↑uneasy
• Similar to: ↑uncomfortable
• Derivationally related forms: ↑uneasiness (for: ↑uneasy), ↑awkwardness (for: ↑awkward)

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AWKWARD, uneasy, uncomfortable, embarrassed, self-conscious, out of place, inhibited, gauche; restless, restive, fidgety, discomfited, worried, anxious, on edge, edgy, nervous, tense; informal twitchy, jittery; N. Amer. informal discombobulated, antsy.
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adjective
: not feeling easy : uncomfortable, anxious

back of all our lives is the somber setting of a world ill at ease and beset by perils — Agnes Repplier

and wandered around rather ill at ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn't know — Scott Fitzgerald

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ill at ease
1. Anxious
2. Embarrassed or uneasy
3. Uncomfortable
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Main Entry: ↑ease
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ill at ease
1. Uneasy
2. Embarrassed
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Main Entry: ↑ill

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ill at ease phrase
not confident or relaxed
Thesaurus: not confident or shy and easily embarrassedsynonym confidence and pride
Main entry: ease

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uncomfortable or embarrassed

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adj [more \ill at ease; most \ill at ease]
: not comfortable or relaxed : nervous or embarrassed

Their stares made us (feel) ill at ease.

He seemed ill at ease when we spoke with him.

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ˌill at ˈease idiom
feeling uncomfortable and embarrassed

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I

felt ill at ease

in such formal clothes.

Main entry: ↑illidiom

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