ill at ease

The phrase “ill at ease” has 3 syllables: ill at ease

It's pronounced as /ɪl æt iːz/


What is synonym and antonym for ill at ease?

In the thesaurus, “ill at ease” has 76 synonyms and 16 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for ill at ease along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for ill at ease

  • aflutter
  • aggrieved
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • atwitter
  • awkward
  • bothered
  • concerned
  • discomfited
  • disquieted
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dithery
  • doubtful
  • edgy
  • faltering
  • fidgety
  • flighty
  • flustered
  • fluttery
  • foreboding
  • freaked
  • freaked-out
  • fretful
  • fretting
  • goosey
  • hesitant
  • het up
  • high-strung
  • hinky
  • hung up
  • hypertense
  • insecure
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • keyed up
  • misgiving
  • nervous
  • nervy
  • obsessed
  • on edge
  • on pins and needles
  • on tenterhooks
  • out of place
  • perturbed
  • preoccupied
  • qualmish
  • qualmy
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • restless
  • self-conscious
  • shook-up
  • shy
  • skittish
  • spooky
  • stewing
  • suspicious
  • tense
  • troubled
  • twittered
  • uncomfortable
  • undone
  • uneasy
  • unnerved
  • unquiet
  • unrelaxed
  • unsettled
  • unstrung
  • unsure
  • upset
  • uptight
  • vexed
  • worried

Antonyms for ill at ease

  • at ease
  • calm
  • collected
  • comfortable
  • confident
  • content
  • controlled
  • cool
  • easy
  • happy-go-lucky
  • nerveless
  • relaxed
  • self-assured
  • self-confident
  • self-controlled
  • sure

Example Sentences

  • Despite her efforts to fit in, she felt ill at ease among the unfamiliar crowd.
  • The eerie silence left everyone feeling ill at ease in the abandoned house.
  • His sudden change in behavior made his friends ill at ease about his well-being.
  • The tense atmosphere in the room made the participants ill at ease during the negotiation.
  • Being called to the principal's office left the students ill at ease with anticipation.

On this page you'll find 92 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to ill at ease, such as: aflutter, aggrieved, antsy, anxious, apprehensive, at ease, atwitter.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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uncomfortable

  • abashed
  • aching
  • afflictive
  • agitated
  • agonizing
  • angry
  • anguished
  • angular
  • annoyed
  • annoying
  • awkward
  • bitter
  • boorish
  • bothered
  • chafed
  • chafing
  • chagrined
  • cheerless
  • clownish
  • clumsy
  • comfortless
  • confused
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  • cramped
  • cramping
  • cumbersome
  • debasing
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • difficult
  • diffident
  • disagreeable
  • discomfited
  • discomfiting
  • discomforted
  • discomforting
  • discomposed
  • disconcerted
  • disconcerting
  • discountenanced
  • dismayed
  • disquieted
  • distressed
  • distressing
  • disturbed
  • disturbing
  • dolorous
  • embarrassed
  • embarrassing
  • excruciating
  • exhausted
  • fatigued
  • fazed
  • flustered
  • flustering
  • galled
  • galling
  • gauche
  • gawky
  • graceless
  • grievous
  • hard
  • harsh
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • hurt
  • hurting
  • ill at ease
  • ill-fitting
  • impossible
  • in pain
  • incommodious
  • inconvenient
  • inelegant
  • insecure
  • intolerable
  • irritating
  • itching
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • lubberly
  • meek
  • miserable
  • modest
  • mortified
  • mortifying
  • nasty
  • nervous
  • nonplused
  • nonplussed
  • pained
  • painful
  • perturbed
  • pinching
  • pricking
  • prickling
  • rattled
  • restless
  • rough-hewn
  • rustic
  • rustical
  • self-conscious
  • self-doubting
  • smarting
  • sore
  • stiff
  • stilted
  • stinging
  • strained
  • suffering
  • thorny
  • timid
  • tired
  • torturing
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  • troubled
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  • unassertive
  • unassuming
  • uncouth
  • uneasy
  • ungainly
  • ungraceful
  • unhinged
  • unpleasant
  • unpretentious
  • unsettled
  • unsettling
  • unwieldy
  • upset
  • upsetting
  • vexatious
  • vexed
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wooden
  • worn
  • wracked
  • wretched

qualmy

  • aflutter
  • aggrieved
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • atwitter
  • bothered
  • concerned
  • disquieted
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dithery
  • edgy
  • fidgety
  • flighty
  • flustered
  • fluttery
  • foreboding
  • freaked
  • freaked-out
  • fretful
  • fretting
  • goosey
  • hesitant
  • het up
  • high-strung
  • hinky
  • hung up
  • hypertense
  • ill at ease
  • insecure
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • misgiving
  • nervous
  • nervy
  • obsessed
  • perturbed
  • preoccupied
  • qualmish
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • restless
  • seasick
  • shook-up
  • sick
  • skittish
  • spooky
  • stewing
  • tense
  • troubled
  • twittered
  • undone
  • uneasy
  • unnerved
  • unquiet
  • unstrung
  • upset
  • uptight
  • vexed
  • worried

nervy

  • absurd
  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • aflutter
  • aggrieved
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • arch
  • asinine
  • assertive
  • atwitter
  • audacious
  • balmy
  • bluff
  • blunt
  • bold
  • bold-faced
  • bothered
  • brainless
  • brash
  • brassbound
  • brassy
  • brave
  • brazen
  • brazen-faced
  • cheeky
  • cocksure
  • cocky
  • concerned
  • courageous
  • crass
  • crazy
  • crude
  • curt
  • cute
  • daredevil
  • daring
  • dashing
  • dauntless
  • defiant
  • disquieted
  • disrespectful
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dithery
  • dumb
  • edgy
  • emboldened
  • enterprising
  • facetious
  • fearless
  • fidgety
  • flighty
  • flip
  • flippant
  • flustered
  • fluttery
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • foreboding
  • forward
  • freaked
  • freaked-out
  • free-swinging
  • fresh
  • fretful
  • fretting
  • gadarene
  • gallant
  • goosey
  • greathearted
  • gritty
  • gutsy
  • half-witted
  • hardy
  • harebrained
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heedless
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • hesitant
  • het up
  • high-strung
  • hinky
  • hotheaded
  • hung up
  • hypertense
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill at ease
  • impertinent
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • impudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • inconsiderate
  • insane
  • insecure
  • insolent
  • intrepid
  • irrational
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • keyed up
  • lionhearted
  • lippy
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madcap
  • misgiving
  • moronic
  • mouthy
  • nerved
  • nervous
  • nutty
  • obsessed
  • obtrusive
  • on edge
  • on pins and needles
  • on tenterhooks
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • pert
  • perturbed
  • plucky
  • precipitate
  • preoccupied
  • qualmish
  • qualmy
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • rash
  • reckless
  • restless
  • rude
  • sassy
  • saucy
  • scatterbrained
  • shameless
  • shook-up
  • silly
  • skittish
  • smart
  • smart-aleck
  • smart-alecky
  • spirited
  • spooky
  • spunky
  • stalwart
  • stewing
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • stupid
  • swashbuckling
  • tense
  • thoughtless
  • troubled
  • twittered
  • unabashed
  • unafraid
  • unblushing
  • undaunted
  • undone
  • uneasy
  • unnecessary
  • unnerved
  • unquiet
  • unreasonable
  • unstrung
  • upset
  • uptight
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • vexed
  • wacky
  • whacky
  • wild
  • wise
  • witless
  • worried

edgy

  • activating
  • aflutter
  • aggravating
  • aggrieved
  • angering
  • annoying
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • atwitter
  • bothered
  • bothersome
  • charged
  • clawlike
  • concerned
  • critical
  • cutting
  • daggerlike
  • disquieted
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dithery
  • edged
  • energizing
  • enraging
  • exasperating
  • excitable
  • excited
  • exciting
  • explosive
  • fidgety
  • fiery
  • flighty
  • flustered
  • fluttery
  • foreboding
  • freaked
  • freaked-out
  • fretful
  • fretting
  • galling
  • galvanizing
  • goosey
  • ground
  • hesitant
  • het up
  • high-strung
  • hinky
  • honed
  • hung up
  • hypertense
  • ill at ease
  • impatient
  • incendiary
  • inciting
  • inducing
  • inflammatory
  • insecure
  • inspirational
  • inspiring
  • instigating
  • instigative
  • irascible
  • irksome
  • irritable
  • irritating
  • jabbing
  • jagged
  • jeering
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • keen
  • keyed up
  • knifelike
  • lacerating
  • maddening
  • misgiving
  • motivating
  • motivational
  • motivative
  • nervous
  • nervy
  • obsessed
  • on edge
  • on pins and needles
  • on tenterhooks
  • overstrung
  • perturbed
  • pesky
  • piercing
  • piquing
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • preoccupied
  • provocative
  • provoking
  • qualmish
  • qualmy
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • quickening
  • restive
  • restless
  • scratching
  • sharp
  • sharpened
  • shook-up
  • skittish
  • spikey
  • spiky
  • spooky
  • stabbing
  • stewing
  • stimulating
  • stropped
  • taunting
  • teasing
  • tense
  • touchy
  • trenchant
  • triggering
  • troubled
  • twittered
  • undone
  • uneasy
  • unnerved
  • unquiet
  • unstrung
  • upset
  • upsetting
  • uptight
  • vexatious
  • vexed
  • vexing
  • vitalizing
  • whetted
  • worried

queasy

  • aflutter
  • aggrieved
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • atwitter
  • bilious
  • bothered
  • concerned
  • disquieted
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dithery
  • edgy
  • fidgety
  • flighty
  • flustered
  • fluttery
  • foreboding
  • freaked
  • freaked-out
  • fretful
  • fretting
  • goosey
  • green
  • green around gills
  • groggy
  • hesitant
  • het up
  • high-strung
  • hinky
  • hung up
  • hypertense
  • ill
  • ill at ease
  • indisposed
  • insecure
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • keyed up
  • misgiving
  • nauseated
  • nauseous
  • nervous
  • nervy
  • obsessed
  • on edge
  • on pins and needles
  • on tenterhooks
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • perturbed
  • preoccupied
  • pukish
  • qualmish
  • qualmy
  • queer
  • queerish
  • restless
  • rocky
  • shook-up
  • sick
  • sick as a dog
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • skittish
  • spooky
  • squeamish
  • stewing
  • tense
  • troubled
  • twittered
  • uncertain
  • uncomfortable
  • under the weather
  • undone
  • uneasy
  • unnerved
  • unquiet
  • unsettled
  • unstrung
  • unwell
  • upset
  • uptight
  • vexed
  • woozy
  • worried

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