SICK

ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick

(adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; “ghastly wounds”; “the grim aftermath of the bombing”; “the grim task of burying the victims”; “a grisly murder”; “gruesome evidence of human sacrifice”; “macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages”; “macabre tortures conceived by madmen”

sick

(adjective) deeply affected by a strong feeling; “sat completely still, sick with envy”; “she was sick with longing”

disgusted, fed up, sick, sick of, tired of

(adjective) having a strong distaste from surfeit; “grew more and more disgusted”; “fed up with their complaints”; “sick of it all”; “sick to death of flattery”; “gossip that makes one sick”; “tired of the noise and smoke”

brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged

(adjective) affected with madness or insanity; “a man who had gone mad”

pale, pallid, wan, sick

(adjective) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; “the pale light of a half moon”; “a pale sun”; “the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street”; “a pallid sky”; “the pale (or wan) stars”; “the wan light of dawn”

ill, sick

(adjective) affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; “ill from the monotony of his suffering”

nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish

(adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

sick

(noun) people who are sick; “they devote their lives to caring for the sick”

vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up

(verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; “After drinking too much, the students vomited”; “He purged continuously”; “The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Adjective

sick (comparative sicker, superlative sickest)

Having an urge to vomit.

Synonym: nauseated

(chiefly, American) In poor health.

Synonyms: ill, not well, poorly, sickly, unwell

Antonyms: fit, healthy, well

(colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.

Synonyms: disturbed, twisted, warped

(colloquial) In bad taste.

Tired of or annoyed by something.

(slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.

Synonyms: rad, wicked

Antonyms: crap, naff, uncool

In poor condition.

(agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.

Synonyms

• (in poor health): See also diseased

• (having an urge to vomit): See also nauseated

• (slang: excellent): See also excellent

Noun

sick (uncountable)

Sick people in general as a group.

(British, AU, colloquial) vomit.

Synonyms

• (vomit): See vomit

Verb

sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)

To vomit.

(obsolete, intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.

Etymology 2

Verb

sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)

(rare) Alternative spelling of sic

Anagrams

• CKIs

Source: Wiktionary

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Sick, a. [Compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] Etym: [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. seóc; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sj, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.]

1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. Jer. xiv. 18.

2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.

3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange.

4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. Fuller. Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital.

– Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick.

– Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war.

– Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea.

– Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick.

– Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness.

Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.]

Syn.

– Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.

Sick, n.

Definition: Sickness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Sick, v. i.

Definition: To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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