'Out of sorts' definitions:
Definition of 'Out of sorts'
From: GCIDE
- Sort \Sort\, n. [F. sorie (cf. It. sorta, sorte), from L. sors, sorti, a lot, part, probably akin to serere to connect. See Series, and cf. Assort, Consort, Resort, Sorcery, Sort lot.]
- 1. A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Manner; form of being or acting. [1913 Webster]
- Which for my part I covet to perform, In sort as through the world I did proclaim. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- I'll deceive you in another sort. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To Adam in what sort Shall I appear? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Condition above the vulgar; rank. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals. [Obs.] "A sort of shepherds." --Spenser. "A sort of steers." --Spenser. "A sort of doves." --Dryden. "A sort of rogues." --Massinger. [1913 Webster]
- A boy, a child, and we a sort of us, Vowed against his voyage. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A pair; a set; a suit. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- 6. pl. (Print.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered. [1913 Webster]
- Out of sorts (Print.), with some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence, colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed.
- To run upon sorts (Print.), to use or require a greater number of some particular letters, figures, or marks than the regular proportion, as, for example, in making an index. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Kind; species; rank; condition.
- Usage: Sort, Kind. Kind originally denoted things of the same family, or bound together by some natural affinity; and hence, a class. Sort signifies that which constitutes a particular lot of parcel, not implying necessarily the idea of affinity, but of mere assemblage. the two words are now used to a great extent interchangeably, though sort (perhaps from its original meaning of lot) sometimes carries with it a slight tone of disparagement or contempt, as when we say, that sort of people, that sort of language.
Synonyms of 'out of sorts'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acid,
- ailing,
- angry,
- bad,
- below par,
- caustic,
- cheerless,
- corrosive,
- critically ill,
- discontented,
- down,
- faint,
- faintish,
- feeling awful,
- feeling evil,
- feeling faint,
- feeling something terrible,
- grim,
- humorless,
- ill,
- in bad humor,
- in danger,
- indisposed,
- infestive,
- joyless,
- laid low,
- mirthless,
- miserable,
- mortally ill,
- not quite right,
- off-color,
- out of humor,
- out of temper,
- pleasureless,
- rocky,
- seedy,
- sick,
- sick unto death,
- sickish,
- sorry,
- sorryish,
- taken ill,
- uncheerful,
- uncheery,
- under the weather,
- unhappy,
- unjoyful,
- unmirthful,
- unsmiling,
- unwell,
- wretched