ill-looking
Seeming under weather
Ill-looking means unattractive or sickly in appearance.
The term is old-fashioned and literary: an ill-looking fellow with a scarred face, She appeared ill-looking after weeks of confinement.
It can describe someone who looks unwell or someone whose appearance suggests bad character.
Lacking color intensity
- wanPale and unwell-looking
- sallowUnhealthily yellowish complexion
- peakySlightly ill-looking
- drawnRendered in lines
haggard · pallid · ashen · pasty · gaunt · wasted · ailing · unwell
Lean from deprivation
- skeletalOf or like bones
- thinSmall in diameter
- scrawnyUnattractively thin and bony
- bonyThin, with protruding skeleton
wasted · starved · undernourished · cadaverous · lean · pinched · rawboned · shriveled
Lacking power or force
- feebleWeak and ineffective
- delicateEasily broken or harmed
- fragileEasily broken or damaged
- infirmWeak in body
enfeebled · debilitated · decrepit · doddering · unsteady · shaky · tremulous · tottering
Threateningly suggestive of harm
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- threateningExpressing intent to harm
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- unsettlingCausing unease or discomfort
disturbing · worrying · alarming · troubling · suspicious · dubious · shifty · unwholesome
pale
Lacking color intensity
drawn · haggard · pallid · ashen · pasty · gaunt · wasted · ailing · unwell · feverish
gaunt
Lean from deprivation
bony · wasted · starved · undernourished · cadaverous · lean · pinched · rawboned · shriveled · withered
weak
Lacking power or force
infirm · enfeebled · debilitated · decrepit · doddering · unsteady · shaky · tremulous · tottering · wizened
sinister
Threateningly suggestive of harm
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- threateningExpressing intent to harm
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
unsettling · disturbing · worrying · alarming · troubling · suspicious · dubious · shifty · unwholesome · disquieting
ill-lookinggood-looking
Visually appealing person
handsome · attractive · comely · fine-looking · fair
ill, looking, ills, illness, illnesses, look, looks, looked, looker