SICKLIER
SICKLY
sallow, sickly
(adjective) unhealthy looking
ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy
(adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness; “my poor ailing grandmother”; “feeling a bit indisposed today”; “you look a little peaked”; “feeling poorly”; “a sickly child”; “is unwell and can’t come to work”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
sicklier
comparative form of sickly
Source: Wiktionary
SICKLY
Sick"ly, a. [Compar. Sicklier; superl. Sickliest.]
1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a
sickly body.
This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Shak.
2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly
climate. Cowper.
3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. Dryden.
Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. Keble.
4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly
sentimentality.
Syn.
– Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak;
feeble; languid; faint.
Sick"ly, adv.
Definition: In a sick manner or condition; ill.
My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage. Chaucer.
Sick"ly, v. t.
Definition: To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the
past participle. [R.]
Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak.
Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which
unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. Jeffrey.
SICK
Sick, a. [Compar. Sicker; superl. Sickest.] Etym: [OE. sek, sik, ill,
AS. seĂłc; 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